Debt Quotes

1181 Debt quotes by 770 unique authors

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt. — William J. Clinton
President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions… — William J. Clinton
Remember, Republican economic policies quadrupled the debt before I took office and doubled it after I left. We simply can't afford to double-down on trickle-down. — William J. Clinton
I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is… — George Clooney
Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that. One… — Martin Amis
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;… — Joan of Arc
Our ultimate aim in this welfare work is to help Church members to become self-supporting, and to obtain work they can do best. The Church,… — Henry D. Moyle
When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to abridge them of… — Unknown Author
As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam. — Barack Obama
Amnesty will not help balance our budget ... In fact, a large-scale amnesty is likely to add trillions of dollars to the debt over time,… — Jeff Sessions
A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining… — Martin Van Buren
There are four headwinds that are just hitting the American economy in the face: They're demographics, education, debt and inequality, [and] they're powerful enough to… — Unknown Author
With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war with Japan, in… — J. William Fulbright
War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt. — Samuel B. Pettengill
If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the… — G I Gurdjieff
The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt. — Ambrose
If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in… — Dag Hammarskjold
Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's easy to sit… — Roger Moore
If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself. — Charles Caleb Colton
Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted. — Mark Twain
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows… — John Updike
Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times. — Benjamin Franklin
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. — Samuel Johnson

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