Debt Quotes - Page 25

• Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Integrity, Men

  "Wealth". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860.

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• Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my word as good as my bond, and to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry, and art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Creativity, Reality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1122, Library of America

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• Debts that must be paid ... that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a burden that you have to carry. It is also an opportunity to learn, a chance to practice love and forgiveness, a chance to learn lessons that are valuable to us. Karma offers us the chance to wipe our dirty slate clean, to erase the wrong doings of the past.

  Dada Vaswani

  Karma, Dirty, Past

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• Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.

  Seneca the Younger

  Asking, Pay, Creditors

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• Of course, there's been a real debate about where to invest and where to cut, and I'm committed to working with members of both parties to cut our deficits and debt. But we can't simply cut our way to prosperity.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Party, Cutting

  "President to Meet with Senate Leaders; Minot Evacuees Can't Go Back Home Yet; Indonesian Workers Banned From Saudi Jobs; TSA Forces 95-Year-Old to Remove Adult Diaper; Bachmann to Declare Bid Monday". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. June 26, 2011.

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• A man who owes a little can clear it off in a very little time, and, if he is a prudent man, will; whereas a man, who by long negligence, owes a great deal, despairs of ever being able to pay, and therefore never looks into his accounts at all.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Long, Despair

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.203

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• Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Crush, Eye, Men

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• Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar?

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Success, Two, Pay

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• How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Names, Looks, World

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• Look for companies that do not have a lot of debt.

  Walter Schloss

  Looks, Investing, Company

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• Be sure that debt does not exceed 100% of the equity.

  Walter Schloss

  Doe, Investing, Equity

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• Love is in the pleasure of possession, but in the Love of Allah there is no pleasure of possession, because the stations of the Reality are wonderment, the cancelling of the debt which is owed, and the blinding of vision. The Love of the human being for God is a reverence which penetrates the very depths of his being, and which is not permitted to be given except to Allah alone. The Love of Allah for the human being is that He Himself gives proof of Himself, not revealing Himself to anything that is not He.

  Mansur Al-Hallaj

  Reality, Love Is, Giving

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• The people of this nation are eminently a trafficking people; and the present standard of honesty, as to trade and debts, is very low, and every year seems sinking still lower.

  Catharine Beecher

  Honesty, Years, People

  Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “American Woman's Home”, p.285, Applewood Books

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• charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Mistake, Compassion, Intellectual

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1857). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...”

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• We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Promise, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.204, Penguin

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• Is the price of sin something that can be paid off like a debt?

  Jo Min-Hyuk

  Drama, Sin, Paid Off

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• Said an opponent to me after my last protest was sent in, what party would you vote for, if you could? Neither. I would have a moral sentiment party. I would know the private character of my candidate, would know also whether he takes care of his own property - whether he had failed in business - if so, whether he had paid back every dollar of debt as fast as he had earned them. Yes, every candidate should be examined morally, and if it be found that he has not been true to the monitions of conscience in one direction, he cannot or will not be in another.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Party, Character, One Direction

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• I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Retirement, Office, Serious

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.211, Rowman & Littlefield

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• You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Generosity, Giving, Persons

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.239

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• They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.

  Henry David Thoreau

  School, Half, Faces

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• If I were just to read briefing books or I were just to engage in the political back and forth, would I have heard what a big problem mental health is in New Hampshire? Would I have heard people say they're really worried about the impact on young people because New Hampshire has the highest tuition and debt problems in the country? i'm not sure I would have.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Book, Health

  "Welcome to Hillary Clinton's classroom" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. April 22, 2015.

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• We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Sitting, Divinity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• The oldest and most important currency is debt.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Important, Currency

  Source: www.choprafoundation.org

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• I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

  Kevin Smith

  Worry, Trying, Interest

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• If you look at the balance sheet, the US is heavily in debt. If you look at the income account - the amount of interest the US pays abroad - it is almost exactly equal to the amount of interest that it receives from abroad. American assets held abroad are earning a higher rate of return than foreign assets held here.

  Milton Friedman

  Balance, Income, Looks

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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