Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another. — Paul the Apostle
Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe. — Mark Twain
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. — Mark Twain
He is rich who owes nothing. — Proverbs
I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books. — Gary Paulsen
Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. — Sophia Loren
All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love. — Marquis de Lafayette
I live by the mercy of Jesus, to whom I owe everything and from whom I expect everything. — Pope John XXIII
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. — Abraham Lincoln
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. — Jean-Luc Godard
Owes Image Quotes
I gotta stop treating people like I owe them something.
Life does not owe you anything, because life has already given you everything. — Ralph Marston
I owe it all to little chocolate donuts. — John Belushi
I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything. — William Carey
Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance. — Jack Dempsey
All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my mother.
Never Owe Quotes
Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky. — Unknown Author
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. — Thomas A. Edison
Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice. — Barack Obama
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing.
Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realize how much it owes to them, and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it. — Marcel Proust
We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay. — Doc Hastings
I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have. — George J. Mitchell
I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat. — James A. Garfield
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. — Winston Churchill
As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence. — Mahatma Gandhi
it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Pay What You Owe Quotes
If you pay attention to the patterns of your life, you'll realize how much you owe to failure, heartbreak, and rejection. How these things took you to a greater destination, how they helped you to grow and understand what was really meant for you. You must always remember that. — Steven Bartlett
The IRS sent back my tax return saying I owed $800. I said If you'll notice, I sent a paper clip with my return. Given what you've been paying for things lately, that should more than make up the difference. — Emo Philips
Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be. — James Altucher
As you have to pay more interest and amortization on what you owe, you're left with less and less money to buy goods and services - unless you borrow even more and go further into debt. — Michael Hudson
Imagine you owe on five credit cards, you owe five debts. So which debt should you pay first? And the answer is very simple: You should pay the one with the highest interest rate first. But that's not what people do. — Dan Ariely
I think money is pretty straightforward. Get some money in; pay off what you owe, the rest is yours. — Lemar
Regrets are as personal as fingerprints. Discarding what is vain or false, facing the facts that should truly disturb your conscience, is worth whatever time it takes or pain it may cause. It can pay to the future what you owe to the past. — Margaret Culkin Banning
Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own. — Benjamin Franklin
I'm not going to pay this bill. I don't owe you any money. You do what you got to do! — Jon Jones
World Owe Quotes
I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living. — John Wayne
Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. — George Washington
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living. — John D. Rockefeller
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. — Hans Eysenck
The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it. — F. F. Bruce
We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine. — Pierce Brosnan
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. — Matt Taibbi
I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach. — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
I Don't Owe You Quotes
I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that. — Matt Chandler
You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store. — Merle Travis
Your trees must be tended; if you can afford it, you owe it to them. I don't buy expensive plants; if I am extravagant in any way it is in the care of my garden. — Elisabeth Murdoch
The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don't owe baseball anything. Baseball owes me. — Hank Aaron
My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don't owe you a penny. — Cindy Sheehan
I don't think there is anything owed to us. You've got to go out and work hard for every round win. — Larry Dixon
I don't know what it is to love the way they love-they would jump off a bridge for me. I can't do that. I can only say, I owe you. — Bobby Darin
[The Office] is incredible. It's slightly overwhelming because you don't think that anything you do....having anybody enjoy what you do is such a treat and so I know I've said this a hundred times but we owe it all to our writers. — John Krasinski
We have been listening year after year to [white people] and what have we got? We are not even allowed to think for ourselves. "I know what is best for you," but they don't know what is best for us! It is time now to let them know what they owe us, and they owe us a great deal. — Fannie Lou Hamer
I wouldn't want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don't mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear. — Tom Petty
I Don't Owe Quotes
God doesn't owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I've found is that explanations don't comfort. What comforts is the presence of God, not the explanation of God. — Rick Warren
I haven't had a big-ass feature, somebody put me on a label, cash money didn't come scoop me up. I've literally put myself into millionaire position. All the stuff I've done and I'm doing has nothing to do with nobody. I don't owe anybody anything. No wife, no kids - I don't owe nobody nothin'. — Riff Raff
I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me. — Eric Rohmer
I just owe it to myself, to God and to everybody who supports me and people who don't even know me yet, to just be fully intentional and authentically real with everything I do, say and create. — Kofi Siriboe
I love kids and I maintain that they are our future, that we adults owe them the ability to achieve their potential and that we don't own this planet. We hold it in trust for them. — David Dinkins
I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this. — Daniel Radcliffe
I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere. — Roy Acuff
I don't owe Don King anything. I got things with my own sweat and blood. I don't know if I'll be associated with Don but I won't be a slave or puppet for him. — Larry Holmes
I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal. — George W. Bush
I don't feel I owe my readers details of my family's private life. — J. K. Rowling
Owing A Debt Quotes
America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed. — Allen Boyd
Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we are transferring a tremendous amount of debt to the new generation, much of it owed to overseas creditors who expect to be repaid by our children with interest. — Mark Kirk
Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed. — Joseph Butler
Some debts are fun while you are acquiring them, But none are fun when you set about retiring them. — Ogden Nash
'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude. — Gary Ross
A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy. — Publilius Syrus
The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression. — Ike Skelton
OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities. — Ambrose Bierce
Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security. — Jim Ramstad
This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks. — Helen Keller
I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land. — Thabo Mbeki
The arts are essential to any complete national life. The State owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them. [...] Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the reverence and delight which are their due. — Winston Churchill
I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want, if you work hard enough for it. — Branch Warren
Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core. — James E. Faust
I will place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. If anything will advance the interests of that kingdom, it shall be given away or kept only in reference to whether giving or keeping will most promote the glory1 of him to whom I owe all my hopes in time and eternity. — David Livingstone
Roughly 7 to 8 percent of men in Germany are homosexual. If that is how things remain, our nation will fall to pieces because of that plague. Those who practice homosexuality deprive Germany of the children they owe her. — Sayings
Either human intelligence ultimately owes its origin to mindless matter; or there is a Creator. It is strange that some people claim that it is their intelligence that leads them to prefer the first to the second. — John Lennox
Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death? — Eugene V. Debs
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community. — Haile Selassie
People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay? All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice. — David Livingstone
Each and every one of us is born with a clean heart. Our babies know nothing about hate or racism. But soon they begin to learn – and only from us. We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. We owe it to our children to help them keep their clean start. — Ruby Bridges
If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way. — Erik H. Erickson
I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy. — Vandana Shiva
We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk! — Wangari Maathai
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. — Agnes Repplier
Humanity owes the child the best it has to give. — Eglantyne Jebb
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. — Andre Maurois
You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’. — Erin McKean
I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life, and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect. — Temple Grandin
The best friends you will ever have are the ones who don't make you feel like you owe them a damn thing. — Corey Taylor
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today. — Theodore Roosevelt
Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better training and equipment so they can do their jobs more effectively and safely. — Carl Levin
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with -- a man is what he makes of himself. — Alexander Graham Bell
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