There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude. — Benjamin Franklin
To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us. — Pope Francis
Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future. — Alice Walker
No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full. — Sulla
We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay. — Doc Hastings
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. — Edward F. Halifax
Vengeance is mine; I will repay. — Leo Tolstoy
Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord. — Bible
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Repayment Image Quotes
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Loan Repayment Quotes
I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets. — Charles Vest
Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets. — Charles M. Vest
Korea's early repayment of the full amount of loans from the IMF is a major milestone. — Horst Koehler
Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor. — Yanis Varoufakis
Debt Repayment Quotes
Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice. — Barack Obama
I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt. — Boris Spassky
True greatness means that, even if you forget what you've done for others, you never forget what others have done for you. It means always doing your utmost to repay debts of gratitude. Such people radiate integrity, depth of character, bigheartedness and charm. — Josei Toda
If expecting something in return is your reason for giving, you are really not giving- you're swapping. If you receive something in return for your gift, what you receive is a bonus - not a repayment of a debt. — David Cottrell
The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger. — Robert Fulghum
Seeing that he owns absolutely nothing to ‘repay’ his debt, ‘his own consciousness’ of the fact ‘that he is himself the very substance’ of debt, so must he ‘repay’ with himself, so must he ‘return’ himself to Him Who owns him absolutely. — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
Our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the '80s-rising debt, higher long-term interest rates, higher debt repayment costs, lower growth, higher unemployment, then enforced cuts in public spending. That was the old boom and bust. — Gordon Brown
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it. — Benjamin Franklin
The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness - by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come. — Daniel Dennett
Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts. — Chuck Grassley
Payment Due Quotes
Success is never owned, it is rented, and the rent is due every day. — Rory Vaden
Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work. — James Lee Burke
Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted. — Samuel Johnson
Love is a check, that can be forged, that can be cashed. Love is a payment that comes due. — Janet Fitch
Gratitude is most treasured when it is unexpected. When we expect, even demand gratitude, we treat it simply as payment due for some service we rendered and we squeeze any good feeling out of it. — Michael Josephson
Ma was legally blind due to a degenerative eye disease she'd had since birth. This meant she was entitled to welfare, and our lives revolved around the first day of every month when her payment was due. — Liz Murray
In FY 2006, interest payments alone on the national debt cost us $406 billion. . . . What a waste. . . . That $406 billion is pathetically squandered on interest, just because we lacked the discipline to pay our bills when due. — Bill Press
Simply from greening our energy system and eliminating fossil fuel pollution, we get so much healthier that the savings in health care alone are enough to pay the costs of the green energy transition and would repay those costs in approximately a decade and a half in savings. — Jill Stein
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
You are not what you eat; you are what your gut buddies digest. And they can digest only the specific food they have evolved to recognize and process for you. On the Longevity Paradox program, you are going to start eating for your gut buddies instead of for yourself, and they will repay the favor in spades. — Steven Gundry
You mean the world to me and I'll never stop loving you 'Cause what you have given me I can never repay And if we meet again somehow, I will love you then as now 'Cause you mean the world to me — David LaMotte
If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness. — Lao Tzu
For after chastisement from God, and recognizing him, our way to repay him is to exalt him and confess his wonders before every nation under heaven. — Saint Patrick
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. — John Wooden
My love is such that Rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence.
Thy love is such I can no way repay,
The heavens reward thee manifold I pray. — Anne Bradstreet
Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams. — William E. Gladstone
Listen to the Lord's appeal:...Come, then, return to me and learn to know me as your father, who repays good for evil, love for injury, and boundless charity for piercing wounds. — Peter Chrysologus
Calmly take what ill betideth;
Patience wins the crown at length:
Rich repayment him abideth
Who endures in quiet strength.
Brave the tamer of the lion;
Brave whom conquered kingdoms praise;
Bravest he who rules his passions,
Who his own impatience sways. — Johann Gottfried Herder
He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love. — Baruch Spinoza
Whoever devotedly undertakes and performs this most holy journey... shall have the enjoyment of eternal reward from the repayer of all men. — Pope Eugene III
To those who help me, I repay them with grace. But to those who don't, I repay them with exactly what I've received. That's my motto. Only then the world will be balanced. — Kim Joon
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I can help the next generation remember the lineage of great companies here and how to continue the tradition. The Valley has been very supportive of me. I should do my best to repay. — Steve Jobs
Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal. — Lord Byron
The business of banking ought to be simple. If it is hard it is wrong. The only securities which a banker, using money that he may be asked at short notice to repay, ought to touch, are those which are easily saleable and easily intelligible. — Walter Bagehot
The destination of the soul: this is what I, led on by Nils Holgersson, came to seek in the literature of Western Europe. I fervently hope that my pursuit, as a Japanese, of literature and culture will, in some small measure, repay Western Europe for the light it has shed upon the human condition. — Kenzaburo Oe
But thou, through good and evil, praise and blame,
Wilt not thou love me for myself alone?
Yes, thou wilt love me with exceeding love,
And I will tenfold all that love repay;
Still smiling, though the tender may reprove,
Still faithful, though the trusted may betray. — Thomas B. Macaulay
I've done everything for the wrong reasons. All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting God to repay me. I thought if I worked hard enough, God would have to give me what I wanted. The truth is I've never served the Lord at all. I was always serving myself. — Francine Rivers
The ocean, king of mountains and the mighty continents Are not heavy burdens to bear when compared To the burden of not repaying the world's kindness. — Buddha
If the cross is a personal act of violence perpetrated by God towards humankind but borne by his Son, then it makes a mockery of Jesus' own teaching to love your enemies and to refuse to repay evil with evil. — Steve Chalke
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