World Owes Quotes
32 quotes by 26 authors
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No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were…
— George MacDonald
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If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they…
— Unknown Author
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Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced . . .…
— Carlton J. H. Hayes
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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…
— William Graham Sumner
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The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
— Thomas A. Edison
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Don't be misled into believing that somehow the world owes you a living. The boy who believes that his parents, or the government, or any…
— David Sarnoff
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.
— Sacagawea
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Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion.
— Noah Webster
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I now find peace in the realization that countless potential masterpieces happen each moment the world over and go unphotographed. The world owes a great…
— Dan Winters
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There is too little idea of personal responsibility; too much of "the world owes me a living," forgetting that if the world does owe you…
— Theodore Newton Vail
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It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.
— William Weld
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't…
— Henry Ford
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.
— Guy Kawasaki
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I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside…
— Jay Kay
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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…
— John D. Rockefeller
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
— Mark Twain
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From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success.... I'm just here to cash…
— Bill Watterson
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