Nobody Owes You Nothing Quotes

#1. Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

Larry Flynt

#2. I saw a robin redbreast in Central Park today, but it turned out to be a sparrow with an exit wound.

David Letterman

#3. Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

Jack Dempsey

#4. Face it, nobody owes you anything. What you achieve, or fail to achieve is directly related to what you do or fail to do.

Anonymous

#5. A great fortune is a great slavery.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#6. I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want, if you work hard enough for it.

Branch Warren

#7. Hey, it's been a great ride for me, a great life. Everything I have I owe to baseball. Baseball owes me nothin'. Ain't nobody has to give me nothin'. I would be embarrassed if I had a day somewhere. I don't want no day. I want friends, to live my life the way I wanna live it.

Don Zimmer

#8. Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.

Andy Grove

#9. There are creatures in this world, small things and pretty things, which burn within them a fire for survival.

S.C. Barrus

#10. Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.

Walter J. Phillips

#11. Making someone feel obligated, pressured or forced into doing something of a sexual nature that they don't want to is sexual coercion. This includes persistent attempts at sexual contact when the person has already refused you. Nobody owes you sex, ever; and no means no, always.

Miya Yamanouchi

#12. Fraught, adj.
Does every "I love you" deserve an "I love you too"? Does every kiss deserve a kiss back? Does every night deserve to be spent on a lover?
If the answer to any of these is "No," what do we do?

David Levithan

#13. We're dream chasers. Nobody owes us our dream. But we have to chase it.

Michael Rispoli

#14. Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.

Katharine Hepburn

#15. This is it, the geographical limit of how far I'll go for Ossie. We are learning longitude and latitude in school, and it makes my face burn that I can graph the coordinates of my own love and courage with such damning precision.

Karen Russell

#16. The difference between us and Jesus Christ is that He had to do it perfectly so that we wouldn't have to.

Kassi Pontious

#17. Teach all men to fish, but first teach all men to be fair. Take less, give more. Give more of yourself, take less from the world. Nobody owes you anything, you owe the world everything.

Suzy Kassem

#18. Nobody owes me anything. I am not at a disadvantage. I am equipped, empowered, and anointed.

Joel Osteen

#19. He's alright. He's fine, Dad says, his usual line whenever Oliver gets hurt. It means: Go away. Don't baby him. Don't show too much compassion. The other dads do this too. It's some kind of group hysteria, based on some fatherly fear that says compassion equals homosexuality.

Deb Caletti

#20. Hell, girl, everybody feels sorry for you, but nobody owes you a damn thing.

Maya Angelou

#21. The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.

Andy Grove

#22. Jenny? Just as I was considering

S.C. Stephens

#23. Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

Tony Curtis

#24. Success lasts only three seconds. After that, you're the same as you were before you had it.

Robert Shaw

#25. The earthly paradise had been discredited at exactly the moment when it became realisable.

George Orwell

#26. Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.

Sam Walton

#27. All girls have sex with a stranger fantasies and fantasies played out are healthier than those that have been left to fester and go mouldy. When we look back, we don't regret the things we have done, only the things left undone, the things we wanted to do and never did.

Chloe Thurlow