A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
“We owe some of our successes to people who did not want to help us more than we do to those who… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“One of the drawbacks of upward social mobility is a sense of guilty indebtedness to the old neighborhood.” — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
“Parenting is the greatest pay it forward system on earth. We don't owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient… — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We had no longing for excessive wealth: a mere competency, though earned by daily toil, so that it was reasonably sure, and… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
Let us candidly confess our indebtedness to the needle. How many hours of sorrow has it softened, how many bitter irritations calmed,… — Caroline Wells Healey Dall Copy Share Image
What is a permanent loan but a mortgage upon the wealth and industry of the country? It is the only form of… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain indebtedness and duty toward it because I have walked… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Most of the productivity gains appear to go to the top 1 percent. Most people don't have enough income and as a… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
I do have one regret though. I wish Kathy Acker was still alive. I wish I could go swim with her again.… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
One of Satan's greatest tools is pride: to cause a man or a woman to center so much attention on self that… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
People ask how I can be a conservative and still want higher taxes. It makes my head spin, and I guess it… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
Our spending priorities are clearly in question when we are increasing bond indebtedness on pet projects such as museums while our infrastructure… — Chris McDaniel Copy Share Image
Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I felt a great sense of indebtedness and responsibility to use the help that other people had given me to in turn… — Brooke Ellison Copy Share Image
“Here I am, proud as Greek god, and yet standing debtor to this blockhead for a bone to stand on! Cursed be… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Americans have a strange notion that the ordinary laws of economics do not apply to them. So doubtless they will think they… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“It's better to find success through God, than finding it on one's own merits; some who usually find their own success become… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“I always feel: when one person is indebted to another for something very special, that indebtedness should remain a secret between just… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We could curtail private spending by several trillion dollars a year without requiring painful sacrifices from anyone. That would be more than… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
“What does happen is that if we give them a gift, we will trigger a feeling of indebtedness—a feeling of indebtedness that… — Susan M. Weinschenk Copy Share Image
Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I’ll buy your product and then return your product, and tell you to keep my money, so it feels more like a… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult… — Frank Lautenberg Copy Share Image
College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The idea of regularly acknowledging our indebtedness to the natural world and giving thanks for the many gifts we receive from it,… — Charlie Cook Copy Share Image
The financial history of the last century shows a steady increase in the amount of public indebtedness. Nobody believes that the states… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I am determined to elect a president of our choosing this year and one who will be deeply indebted, and who will… — Howard Hughes Copy Share Image
We deeply need the humility to know ourselves as the dependent members of a great community of life, and this can indeed… — Howard Zahniser Copy Share Image
Finally, in the Mississippi state Senate, earmarks are often hidden in bond bills, which I have voted against many times, because our… — Chris McDaniel Copy Share Image
I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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