Debts Quotes

It is incumbent on every generation
to pay its own debts as it goes.
A principle which if acted on would
save one-half the wars of the world.
- Thomas Jefferson

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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung

A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Without this playing with fantasy,
no creative work has ever yet come to birth.
The debt we owe to the play of
the imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung

Science does not know its debt to imagination.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- Abraham Lincoln

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself.
Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor
for helping us to love God better because of them.
- Mother Teresa

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson

Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen

Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss

From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous

Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller

These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill

No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw

These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill

Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu

Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling

Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell

Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung

If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda

All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu

Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson

I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance

To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden

A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin

The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott

The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela

The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore

It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher

A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie