Top 100 Paid Off Quotes
#1. I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off.
Scott Foley
#2. Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'
Dick Van Dyke
#3. I belong to a family where I think we're all fairly treated, boys or girls. Although I have to work doubly hard just to be able to be recognised. That meant long hours, but the hard work paid off.
Teresita Sy-Coson
#4. I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.
Akshay Kumar
#5. We make our house a home, but the sooner the mortgage is paid off, the sooner it truly turns into our own home.
Celso Cukierkorn
#6. You're finally there, Robbie. On stage in front of huge audiences. All of your hard work has paid off. It's your time.
He didn't want any of that. As he looked at Zoey, the priorities he'd always set for himself fell away, leaving just one. One thing that mattered to him.
Her.
Mari Carr
#7. An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.
Aravind Adiga
#8. They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#9. I was black and blue for about two years, but it's paid off tremendously. You know, if you get enough whacks, your reflexes pick up, and I've become quite good - if somebody throws keys or something, I can catch them.
Lucy Lawless
#10. All the trials and tribulations have paid off. In life, you have setbacks ... When you're in your valley, that's when you're tested the most -not when you're at your peak.
Rashad Evans
#11. Just the responsibility of wanting to see my mother have a better life; making sure my sister had a better life. I went ahead and accepted that responsibility when I was young and it paid off. That was really the only goal.
Yo Gotti
#12. In 1981, I borrowed 2,000 pounds - a lot of money back then - paid 50 quid for a seat, packed my own sandwich, and hopped on a plane to America. It was a mighty leap, but one that paid off. A week later, I got a job called 'Remington Steele.'
Pierce Brosnan
#13. It preyed on human desire and it paid off by sheer terror.
John Grisham
#14. I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.
Kangana Ranaut
#15. I've always paid off my mortgage as much as I could.
Nicki Chapman
#16. I wonder how many college tuitions could be paid off with the amount of money spent by Minions on advertisement.
Amandla Stenberg
#17. The double-teaming paid off; there was no resisting the power of a Stark-Romanoff alliance for long.
Margaret Stohl
#18. Yeah, playing anywhere from three to five gigs a week definitely [helped]. I think all the practice throughout the years and doing what I do paid off.
Bo Bice
#19. I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt - pretty conservative. The first entitlement reform of your lifetime - in fact, the only major entitlement reform to now is welfare.
Newt Gingrich
#20. He didn't worry about how screwed-up the market for some security became because he knew that eventually it would be disciplined by logic: Businesses either thrived or failed. Loans either were paid off or were defaulted upon.
Michael Lewis
#21. Sometimes I really need the money, really need to go straight to work. But if I had the absolute choice - money no object, my mortgage paid off - I'd really just work once or twice a year - but wouldn't everybody! - or at least do a different job sometimes.
Sophie Okonedo
#22. You knew that if you survived that accident, there's no way I could ever leave you again. Not unless I want your blood on my hands. You're lucky your gamble paid off. Now you can do or say whatever you want, can't you. You've got me right where you've always wanted me.
You win.
Heather Demetrios
#23. Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off.
David Naughton
#24. I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.
Kevin Costner
#25. The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
Gabby Douglas
#26. We're always hearing about risk-takers whose risks paid off, but they are no braver than those whose risks end in ridicule.
Frank Skinner
#27. I said yes to so many things, from a sex change to gastric by-pass surgery, so it's always paid off for me.
Jim Carrey
#28. We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever.
James W. Black
#30. He got Strahan to print fifty advertisements to be run in 'country papers', along with 250 showcards for booksellers' windows. Although none of this was expensive, the final account that Strahan presented was for more than £800, a sum that was not fully paid off until almost four years later. The
Henry Hitchings
#31. You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.
Joel Osteen
#32. His insane gamble of granting Mollie breathing room with Colonel Lowe had finally paid off. Mollie had had the chance to know both men, and she had made her choice. She'd come back to him, and she wasn't leaving again.
Elizabeth Camden
#33. I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.
Eddie Marsan
#34. No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.
Thomas Jefferson
#35. That's sounds right. Another $5,000 went to dress up the Little League park where he had played so many games. Seems like he paid off the MORTAGE on his parents' home, which wasn't that much.
John Grisham
#36. It's like a crapshoot in Las Vegas, except in Las Vegas the odds are with the house. As for the market, the odds are with you, because on average over the long run, the market has paid off.
Harry Markowitz
#37. It was obviously a pretty hectic development schedule and we put a huge team on to it but it paid off because we continuously get complemented on the finished product.
Andrew Oliver
#38. I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.
Jessica Seinfeld
#39. In Iraq, the U.S. military's whack-a-mole approach to killing Saddam Hussein may have finally paid off. The bombs destroyed the area and left behind a 60-foot crater, or as coalition forces prefer to call it: a freedom hole.
Jon Stewart
#40. It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.
Preston Sturges
#41. My job is for the people. It's for the public. It's for their consumption. So I've done a lot in that way, and I see that the hard work has finally paid off.
Katy Perry
#42. He was hoping that when this was all over, his spiritual overdraft would have been paid off, and he'd be allowed to use the cash machine again.
Nick Hornby
#43. For the next month, I worked from 4 am to 9 pm. At the end of the month, when the calculations were done, I had earned 2800 rupees. I couldn't believe my eyes. I had never seen so much money in my entire life and now this was my earning for just one month. My hard work had paid off.
Shobha Bondre
#44. They make a profit from interest on the loan, not repayment of the loan. If a loan is paid off, the bank merely has to find another borrower, and that can be an expensive nuisance.
Anonymous
#45. I think that man was half-right. He is better off out of the game - but the game may not be better off without him. A man should not exist for himself alone. Life made an investment in him, and that investment was not paid off.
Piers Anthony
#46. Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.
Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final defence of the dying. (252)
Suzanne Collins
#47. I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!
Matt Groening
#48. Where I trained at in Florida, though, they didn't have Jack in the Box. There were a couple of nights where they were all I could think about. But, it worked out for me at the combine. It paid off.
Virgil Green
#49. A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace
Chanakya
#50. Pain is a debt paid off with time.
Matt Haig
#51. Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out to do standup downtown. It paid off.
Hal Sparks
#52. Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.
Iain Duncan Smith
#53. I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of Bowling Green Street, Leith, went bust. If they hadn't folded, I'd probably still be scaffolding and loving it.
Jamie Sives
#54. Is the price of sin something that can be paid off like a debt?
Jo Min-Hyuk
#55. Fate.
She'd never been a big beliver in things like that, had always believed that solid decisions and hard work were what paid off. And they had.
But, really, it was getting to the point where it felt like the universe was screaming at her to pay attention!
Bella Andre
#56. I tried gambling and it never paid off, women make you suffer, and greed has no end ...
Rawi Hage
#57. Hopefully by next week the classes will have paid off and I'll be cooking gourmet."
"Gourmet? From your cooking?" He pushed aside his computer, grabbed a paper plate, and started scoop0ing rice. "You shouldn't be able say those things in the same sentence.
Kristin Miller
#58. it was that single factor that seemed to most determine how content they were with life: the willingness to act. Taking chances, even when they rarely paid off, still generated more joy
Drew Hayes
#59. I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn't like my voice. I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it's paid off.
Shakira
#60. I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.
David Steinberg
#61. Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack. And a white man get paid off of all of that.
Kanye West
#62. The journey has definitely not been easy, but all the sacrifice has paid off very well in terms of my performance on-court.
Rohan Bopanna
#63. Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.
Allison Pearson
#64. They're cloaking," I said, as the pieces clicked into place. "They're using Iron glamour to twist the light around themselves so they appear invisible." I felt a thrill of discovery, of knowing I was right. All those years of watching Star Trek had finally paid off.
Julie Kagawa
#65. Thirty-nine was the best year of my life earnings-wise. I paid off my mortgage and felt a massive sense of achievement.
Nicki Chapman
#66. My first job was in pantomime; I was a chorus girl in 'Dick Whittington' at 16. I got the part by ringing the director daily to see if anyone had dropped out, and it paid off eventually, when I was cast as a rat!
Celia Imrie
#67. I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
Ray Bradbury
#68. I did not get Botox because you wouldn't see any expression in my face. Hopefully it has paid off.
Penelope Ann Miller
#69. I'm glad that I ran track in high school. I think it paid off.
Lela Rochon
#70. To her, saving grace meant you got to live out your life like a normal person: You were healthy and strong, an the prospect of death was just some far-off, barely acknowledged hypothetical. A debt to be paid off in a future you couldn't imagine
J.R. Ward
#71. Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.
Nicholas Brendon
#72. The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions.
Katie Leclerc
#73. That hard work, honesty, and integrity always paid off in the end, while skating by on your looks was somehow an offense. And like that day playing psychiatrist, I occasionally worried that she was right.
Emily Giffin
#74. The paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice.
Dave Ramsey
#75. One of their most famous coups was underwriting a $10 million loan for a growing mail-order house called Sears, Roebuck, headed by Goldman's distant relative. It was the first time a mail-order security had ever been on the market-a calculated risk, but one that paid off.
Kenneth L. Fisher
#76. Imagine the awful satisfaction, to know that all those years of worry had paid off.
Gillian Flynn
#77. The days of chivalry are not gone, notwithstanding Burke's grand dirge over them; they live still in that far-off worship paid by many a youth and man to the woman of whom he never dreams that he shall touch so much as her little finger or the hem of her robe.
George Eliot
#78. Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.
Josh Gad
#79. When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said:
'do you want me to get them off the car?'
and Lennon replied: 'No - they paid for it, they can wreck it
John Lennon
#80. Even professional, paid carers aren't always models of saintly behaviour - and they know they can knock off at the end of their shift to go home, take an uninterrupted shower, and have a normal conversation with someone.
Laurie Graham
#81. No good sentences ever include the word 'should.' I should have paid the tavern bill; now they're coming to break my legs. I should never have run off with my best friend's wife; now she devils me constantly. I should -
Cassandra Clare
#82. If you paid your mortgage off, it means you probably did not manage your funds efficiently over the years,
David Lereah
#83. I remember sitting down with my parents and telling them that I was going to put off college to study acting. I had already paid money to the college and gotten housing. I walked around the campus and it just didn't feel right.
Kelly Blatz
#84. We need to have mentoring programs energized by government, paid for by government, but who exist not because of government. Teen Challenge is a way to get people off drugs and alcohol. Teen Challenge is a faith-based program that changes people's hearts.
George W. Bush
#85. If I am using a sable, it may start off as an eight or seven, but it's a double aught by the time I'm done. I hate brights ... they have no use. You might as well buy a filbert and take the scissors and cut off half of what you paid for.
Nelson Shanks
#86. Dwight went on. "I could have signed up. It wasn't hard. I'm more than qualified to be an officer." Bullshit. "Then why didn't you?" "The military is for idiots and the underprivileged. I can see some kid joining up for the money or to get his college paid for, but it's a hell of a trade-off.
Zachary J. Kitchen
#87. We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.
David Dinkins
#88. Now, cherub," his words roll off his lips like honey, "the first repayment of the day: you're coming home with me, and you're not leaving until your debts have all been paid.
Laura Thalassa
#89. Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get - they probably don't have the mission in their souls.
Robert Kiyosaki
#90. I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.
Larry Wall
#91. Waiters and waitresses are becoming nicer and much more caring. I used to pay my check, they would say "Thank you." That's now escalated into "You care care of yourself, now." The other day I paid my check and the waiter said, "Don't put off that mammogram."
Rita Rudner
#92. I know you did what you could to help pappa."
"Kid," I brushed his hand off my shoulder. "Your father did a stupid thing and paid the price for it. Now fuck off.
Khalia Hades
#93. They're not really dogs, they're employees. Security. I paid forty grand apiece for these fucking dogs. One wrong look at Ashleigh or Kate and they eat your face off.
J.A. Huss
#94. It gave them something to do and it took their mind off the way Yuxia was driving, which, had they paid attention to it, might have been the most frightening thing they had seen all day.
Neal Stephenson
#95. I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.
Alicia Keys
#96. I work for everything I've got. I started off as a very poor kid. I want to get paid.
Gene Simmons
#97. God was like the phone company: You paid your bill, and sometimes you got cut off anyway.
Douglas Clegg
#98. Whether your audience is in a sweaty basement club or nestled in a favourite armchair, good money has been paid, and attention has got to be grabbed if you are not to be heckled off the stage or find your novel discarded in favour of the latest volume of 'Fifty Shades of Whatever.'
Mark Billingham
#99. To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#100. Pennsylvania one year paid out $90,000 in bounties for the killing of 130,000 owls and hawks to save the state's farmers a slightly less than whopping $1,875 in estimated livestock losses. (It is not very often, after all, that an owl carries off a cow.)
Bill Bryson
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