Debtors Quotes - Page 2

You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor.

All men are interdependent. Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which both the living and the dead of all nations have contributed. Whether we realize it or not, each of us lives eternally 'in the red.' We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

We are a debtor nation, and we owe now $19 trillion and it's going to go up very fast by the way from this point.

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.

The fact that younger people are more inclined to socialism may well come with the fact that so many young people's first experience with capitalism is as a debtor.

If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.

I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it is a wretched business.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.

When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.

Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.

Our country has tremendous problems. We're a debtor nation.

I would love to see a fundamental re-thinking of whether we truly want to be the world's largest debtor nation, feeding an insatiable desire for mall-crawling with cheaply made crap from all over the world.

The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.

O believer, learn to reject pride, seeing that you have no ground for it. Whatever you are, you have nothing to make you proud. The more you have, the more you are in debt to God; and you should not be proud of that which renders you a debtor.