Debt Quotes
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It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy. (Quote by - Daniel Akaka)
Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances. (Quote by - David Wilkerson)
They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt. (Quote by - Denis Kearney)
The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis. (Quote by - Susan George)
Bankruptcy stared me in the face, but one thought kept me calm; soon I'd be too poor to need an anti-theft alarm. (Quote by - Gina Rothfels)
Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt. (Quote by - Bill Shuster)
He that dies pays all debts. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The impulse dances inside the debt. (Quote by - Jareb Teague)
Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing. (Quote by - Mark Caine)
Our workers comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state's economy, and I firmly believe that in order to create more good jobs in West Virginia this system must be fixed and it must be fixed now. We cannot afford to wait even one more minute. (Quote by - Joe Manchin III)
Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars. (Quote by - Steve Israel)
I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them. (Quote by - Conrad Veidt)
Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me. (Quote by - George Porter)
It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income. (Quote by - Leonard Orr)
Typically, students slide into debt through the extension (by credit card companies) of unaffordable credit lines. (Quote by - Robert Manning)
The men and women on the front lines of the war on terror continue to risk their lives to save ours - and for that we owe them a debt that we can never truly repay. Thanks to their efforts we have made tremendous progress. Yet, the job is not done. (Quote by - Doc Hastings)
The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against. (Quote by - Suzanne Fields)
I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful. (Quote by - Christopher Lee)
One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back. (Quote by - Jesse H. Jones)
Debt is the slavery of the free. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house. (Quote by - William Graham Sumner)
All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better. (Quote by - Eliot Engel)
Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted. (Quote by - Sam Brownback)
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. (Quote by - Alexander the Great)
The American people do not like privatization. They are afraid of the debt the president's willing to do. And they don't like benefit cuts. And everyone here should understand all 45 Senate Democrats are united. We are not going to let this happen. (Quote by - Harry Reid)
He who promises runs in debt. (Quote by - The Talmud)
We all think we're going to get out of debt. (Quote by - Louie Anderson)
The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting. (Quote by - Alan Brien)
There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn. (Quote by - Paul Clitheroe)
And it's also producing a growth in debt to the United States that will weight very heavily in a country that has to address issues like having more old people to be covered by Social Security or by pension in the future. (Quote by - Rodrigo Rato)
If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt? (Quote by - Jim Rogers)
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. (Quote by - Alexander Hamilton)
It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre. (Quote by - Frances McDormand)
Never spend your money before you have it. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
No man's credit is as good as his money. (Quote by - E.W. Howe)
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible. (Quote by - Rutherford B. Hayes)
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years. (Quote by - Jim Cooper)
A church debt is the devil's salary. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do. (Quote by - George Gaylord Simpson)
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. (Quote by - George D. Prentice)
High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active role in providing financial and economic education during all stages of one's life. (Quote by - Ruben Hinojosa)
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. (Quote by - John Buchan)
Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt. (Quote by - Benny Hinn)
We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid. (Quote by - John Spratt)
I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year. (Quote by - Alexander Brome)
A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory. (Quote by - Austin O'malley)
Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration. (Quote by - Susan George)
Repaying the debt of these ultimate sacrifices seems nearly impossible but we must try. (Quote by - Michael N. Castle)
Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)
Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear! (Quote by - Nigel Dennis)
Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as "deficits as far as the eye can see." But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk? (Quote by - Karl Rove)
But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay. (Quote by - Euripides)
Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives. (Quote by - Karl Rove)
A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves. (Quote by - Ralph W. Sockman)
The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt. (Quote by - Ruben Hinojosa)
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. (Quote by - Allen Boyd)
People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down. (Quote by - James Taylor)
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. (Quote by - Carl Jung)
A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold. (Quote by - Nelson A. Miles)
What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt. (Quote by - John Spratt)
So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful. (Quote by - John Perkins)
If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty. (Quote by - David Korten)
If you want the time to pass quickly, just give your note for 90 days. (Quote by - R. B. Thomas)
Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America. (Quote by - Felix Bloch)
Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties. (Quote by - Frederick Pollock)
deeply in love as they are in debt. (Quote by - Earl Wilson)
The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude. (Quote by - Steve Buyer)
The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design. (Quote by - Daniel Keys Moran)
Education: A debt due from present to future generations. (Quote by - George Peabody)
To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs. (Quote by - Paul Gillmor)
It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people. (Quote by - Richard Neal)
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? (Quote by - Adam Smith)
Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries. (Quote by - Kenneth Clarke)
God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace. (Quote by - William Gurnall)
'Tis against some men's principle to pay interest, and seems against others' interest to pay the principle. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid program. (Quote by - Jeffrey Sachs)
Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have. (Quote by - Bobby Scott)
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt. (Quote by - Henrik Ibsen)
I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them. (Quote by - Ernie Banks)
One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief. (Quote by - Gwen Ifill)
Today, there are three kinds of people: the have's, the have-not's, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-have's. (Quote by - Earl Wilson)
Wars are made to make debt. (Quote by - Ezra Pound)
Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions. (Quote by - E. O. Wilson)
Who recalls when folks got along without something if it cost too much? (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
A promise made is a debt unpaid. (Quote by - Robert Service)
First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt. (Quote by - Jennifer Dunn)
Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay. (Quote by - Doc Hastings)
Debt is the worst poverty. (Quote by - M. G. Lichtwer)
This country owes them all a debt of gratitude. The down payment on that debt is making sure that we live up to Lincoln's charge: to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan. (Quote by - Dave Obey)
found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office. (Quote by - Barack Obama)
Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us. (Quote by - Freya Stark)
Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. (Quote by - Dutch Proverb)
The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared. (Quote by - Frank Shorter)
Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security. (Quote by - Jim Ramstad)
He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them. (Quote by - George Herbert)
Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer. (Quote by - Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too. (Quote by - Suze Orman)
Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment. (Quote by - Bobby Hull)
Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government. (Quote by - Robert Toombs)
Our national debt, after all, is an internal debt, owed not only by the nation but to the nation. If our children have to pay the interest they will pay that interest to themselves. (Quote by - Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty. (Quote by - Rodrigo Rato)
I have serious concerns about whether it's prudent to give any foreign country substantial leverage over the U.S. economy. Instead of spending $80 billion on important programs here at home, we're sending this money overseas just to pay interest on our debt. (Quote by - Tim Johnson)
The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt. (Quote by - William Vickrey)
'Twas drink made me fall in love, And love made me run into debt, And though I have struggled and struggled and strove, I cannot get out of them yet. (Quote by - Alexander Brome)
Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100,000 to $200,000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs. (Quote by - Jim Gerlach)
While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans. (Quote by - Tom Harkin)
The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past. (Quote by - Edward M. Purcell)
The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days. (Quote by - Marilu Henner)
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. (Quote by - Joseph Butler)
The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled. (Quote by - Ross Perot)
Creditors have better memories than debtors. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy. (Quote by - Jeffrey Sachs)
Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies. (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-lytton)
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. (Quote by - Boris Spassky)
In God we trust; all others must pay cash. (Quote by - American Saying)
Well, the problem of the federal government is that they print money and go in debt. That's their national policy, Democrats and Republicans it doesn't matter. And this is where I differ. (Quote by - Richard M. Daley)
Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt. (Quote by - Sammy Davis, Jr.)
A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt. (Quote by - Italian Proverb)
King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France. (Quote by - Joan of Arc)
You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. (Quote by - Daniel Hannan)
Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures. (Quote by - Chaka Fattah)
When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage. (Quote by - Bill Balance)
Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times. (Quote by - Rutherford B. Hayes)
These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost. (Quote by - Norm Dicks)
A man in debt is so far a slave. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
We players understand we have the best lives in the world. We owe a debt of gratitude to all our fans, everyone who supports us. (Quote by - Bruce Bowen)
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. (Quote by - Carl Jung)
Science does not know its debt to imagination. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart. (Quote by - Romeo LeBlanc)
Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens. (Quote by - Jon Porter)
The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child. (Quote by - Daniel Hannan)
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt. (Quote by - Tom Allen)
Right now, a majority of the debt is owed to foreign interests, Japan being the largest purchaser of government debt today, soon to be surpassed by China as the number one purchaser of our debt in this Nation. (Quote by - Ron Kind)
Any creator owes a debt to past creation. (Quote by - Lukas Foss)
Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work. (Quote by - Knut Hamsun)
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. (Quote by - Ike Skelton)
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. (Quote by - American Proverb)
She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted. (Quote by - David Brin)
Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate. (Quote by - William Wycherley)
If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time. Technically, short-term debt means money that's coming due within a year. Typically, it means money that's coming due within 30 to 90 days. (Quote by - Jeffrey Sachs)
A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
lessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. (Quote by - Herbert Hoover)
It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill! (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting. (Quote by - Bill Gates)
It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt. (Quote by - Joel Osteen)
My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell. (Quote by - Gloria Swanson)
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. (Quote by - Nancy Friday)
