Debt Quotes

It is my contention that value does not mix so well with debt.

About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.

When we realize how great a debt we owe to God, we become willing servants, eager to be poured out for God and His Kingdom.

Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague; where we are now in debt, let us get out of debt; if not today...tomorrow.

Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

There are no shortcuts when it comes to getting out of debt.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

You can't be in debt and win. It doesn't work.

Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up.

Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.

My grandmother told me: 'Never be in debt to anyone or anything.' Which is probably why I've never been financially extravagant - I still go to Costco. I'm always conscious of living within my means.

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants.

Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.

Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

It is important to combine structural reforms and good fiscal stewardship with a growth strategy, because when your economy's growing and more revenue's coming in, that helps relieve debt.

In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.

If you want to pay off your debts, it pays to increase your earning power.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem.

I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay.

Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana.

You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.

Repaying the debt of these ultimate sacrifices seems nearly impossible but we must try.

Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that feels like a Third World debt? (135)

All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality.

We were so young, so in love, and so in debt.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.

By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.

The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.

There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.

The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

In the midst of life we are in debt.

First they didn't believe in evolution. Then they didn't believe in global warming. Now the debt ceiling. What I call 'the moron trifecta.'

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.