Personal Debt Quotes

Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I'm the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.

A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.

I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.

I started with capital of about $1,500, a princely sum for a student coming out of college, an amount I borrowed from my father.

I owe everything to the Vikings. What they invested in me was more than money.

My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.

June. June Mathis. No, no one else, ever. She gave me my start. She first, of all people, believed in me.

I am deeply indebted to Georgetown University and the basketball program for all they have done for me.

In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe.

I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.

The Bills gave me my first opportunity. In my mind, I'll be forever grateful for that organization.

I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.

Every time I tour military outlets, I dedicate the food, fitness and set-ups to their service, because it all came to me through the military.

If it wasn't for the Porcaro brothers, I don't know where I'd be right now. My life would be completely different.

New Labour has created a society increasingly oppressed by the worry of personal debt.

Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.

In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments occur when Nature tries to devour me; at such times I am annihilated, but at peace. This would be fine for old people but I... I am my life's debtor, for I have given promises.

I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.

I realized that a lot of people in my family had sacrificed for me to have the opportunity to go to a place like Duke. I owed it to them to finish. I graduated with a 3.6.

It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.

I grinned at him, feeling more enthusiastic about my plan now that he was on board. Rosalie was a pain, but I would always owe her one for choosing Emmett; no one had a better brother than mine.

Anything less than total candor was bullshit. I owed that to my readers, I owed that to myself, and I owed that most specifically to my mother. I've had some thrilling moments in my 18-year literary career to this point, and nothing comes close to giving Geneva Hilliker Ellroy, the farm girl from Tunnel City, Wisconsin, to the world.

Though it might be invidious to mention individuals, yet I may be allowed to say how much I owe to the constant help of my wife, not quite my first, but much my most consistent collaborator, and over the longest period of years.