Top 100 Pays To Quotes
#7. God's love is his holiness reaching out to sinners; grace is but the price that his love pays to his holiness; the cross is but its victory over sin and death; and faith is but the way in which we bring our worship to him who is holy.
David F. Wells
#9. It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
Orison Swett Marden
#10. It pays to take life seriously; things work out when you trust in GOD.
Eugene H. Peterson
#11. It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends.
Bob Dylan
#12. Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.
Nutan Bajracharya
#13. The more attention the brain pays to a given stimulus, the more elaborately the information will be encoded - and retained.
John Medina
#14. Yet these new women would always pay to a man the extravagant compliment which no ordinary woman ever pays to him, that of listening while he is talking.
G.K. Chesterton
#15. Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.
Oscar Wilde
#16. There are some people who get money just because they've got large families. So if it pays to make large families and earn more money than you would earn out at work, why not have more families, larger families? That's wrong.
Robin Leach
#17. Brain surgeons earn 10 times that of a general practitioner ... it pays to be an expert.
Allan Pease
#19. If men are paid/praised more than women for the same work than it always pays to allow the man to have more freedom to pour himself into his work - think of athletes, actors over the age of 28, lawyers, accountants, college deans ...
Julianna Baggott
#20. It pays to be prepared.
Aesop
#21. It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Isaac Asimov
#22. Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
George Sewell
#24. Hypocrisy is said to be the homage that vice pays to virtue, - decorum is the outward expression of that homage; and if this be so, we must acknowledge that vice has latterly grown very humble indeed.
Charles Robert Maturin
#25. Before you get in trouble, it pays to ask yourself how you'll get out again.
Claudia Gray
#26. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Jonathan Swift
#27. It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.
Carl Sagan
#29. It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.
James Howard Kunstler
#30. If only I'd realized earlier that it never pays to fight evil with evil. But after watching my father die, I'd been consumed with bitterness and had allowed it to lead me astray from what was righteous and pleasing to God.
Jody Hedlund
#32. I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.
Andrew Eldritch
#33. Hypocrisy is the homage freedom pays to social convention.
Marty Rubin
#34. The other big lesson from Katrina is that it pays to be prepared. But it's also very difficult to stay prepared because the longer you go between events the more you'll see complacency.
Richard E. Besser
#36. Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.
Samuel Johnson
#37. We are living in times that demand more and more of our brains and muscles, of our nerves and physical energy. Only those who are strong and know how to keep it so, can stand the wear and tear. It pays to stop once in a while to look over our machinery and oil the parts that need it.
Adrian Peter Schmidt
#38. When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.
Napoleon Hill
#39. In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
Voltaire
#40. It pays to be nice. Maybe not right away, but someday.
Tom Angleberger
#41. It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to the best performance you can give.Nothing in your personal life must interfere, neither fatigue, illness, nor anxiety
not even joy.
Lillian Gish
#43. I am a very instinctive Conservative. I have created a welfare system where it pays to work. I have created independent schools within the state sector bringing excellence to children wherever they are.
David Cameron
#44. Hot, short, thorough," I said. I hesitated before adding, "Please." It never pays to insult computers that are smart enough to form sentences. Not when they're in control of the locks, and especially when they have the capacity to boil you in bleach.
"Absolutely," said the shower.
Mira Grant
#45. My die-hard fans who came out - I call them my die-hard fans because any time a fan pays to see you, they have to love what you're doing, respect the craft.
Future
#46. We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again."
~Fiddler, pg. 558
Steven Erikson
#47. If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.
Michael Kinsley
#49. If going east or west, or back and forth
It always pays to keep in sight true north
John Bryden
#50. It pays to get drunk with the best people.
Joe E. Lewis
#51. No one ever pays to learn the most important things.
Neel Burton
#52. Compare the degree of zeal devoted to pursuing the man who assaults a policeman, with the attention that the State pays to the assault of an ordinary citizen.
Murray N. Rothbard
#53. It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
Margaret Thatcher
#54. It just goes to show, if you need a little Christmas, it pays to find someone who needs it more.
Z.A. Maxfield
#55. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms.
Steven Erikson
#56. Hypocrisy a homage is true,
That vice pays to virtue,
Be man - himself so true,
That no false does he brew.
Munindra Misra
#57. Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
Oscar Wilde
#58. If you don't like the place where you find yourself, Waldemar, it pays to remember that you'll be somewhere else in just a moment. The place itself will be a different place.
John Wray
#60. He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.
Elizabeth Bibesco
#61. courtesy, it is also currency. It pays to be lovely to people.
Janna Cachola
#62. When sitting down to write a letter, it always pays to calm one's mood, collect one's thoughts, and have a plan.
Fennel Hudson
#63. In the search [of a deal], we adopt the same attitude one might find appropriate in looking for a spouse: It pays to be active, interested, and open-minded, but it does not pay to be in a hurry.
Warren Buffett
#64. When something you use again and again is on sale, take advantage. This strategy doesn't apply to perishable items, and you don't want to buy so much more than you need just to get a deal, but if you know you're going to use a product eventually, it pays to take advantage of the cheaper price.
Jean Chatzky
#65. The moment we find the reason behind an emotion ... the wall is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return too. That's why it pays to ask those painful questions. The answers can set you free.
Gloria Steinem
#66. There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.
Henry David Thoreau
#68. I don't believe it pays to be a great author.
Jean Webster
#69. Being on time to appointments and meetings is a phase of self-discipline and an evidence of self-respect. Punctuality is a courteous compliment the intelligent person pays to his associates.
Marvin J. Ashton
#70. The Claw smiled. You have begun to learn, Paran. Never be too easy with the knowledge you possess. Words are like coin - it pays to hoard.
Steven Erikson
#71. The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.
Joseph Lewis
#72. It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.
Norman Douglas
#73. Truth be told, the inward gaze is something she's not too fond of. But there are secrets that lurk in the mind, and she doesn't want any of them sneaking up on her. Sometimes it pays to take a deep look inside even if you get queasy gazing into those dark corners.
Alden Bell
#74. Never give anything away for free - but sometimes it pays to oil the wheels a bit.
Diana Gabaldon
#75. Even when God is your co-pilot, it pays to pack a parachute.
Dean Koontz
#76. There's the concept that dreams are as important - if not more important - than reality. The attention that one pays to those things in the shadows is very much a part of the Indian experience.
Joseph Boyden
#77. Words are like coin - it pays to hoard."
"Until you die on a bed of gold," Paran said.
Steven Erikson
#78. It pays to advertise," Nanny agreed. "This is Greebo. Between you and me, he's a fiend from hell." "Well, he's a cat," said Mrs. Gogol, generously. "It's only to be expected.
Terry Pratchett
#79. You'll see that excuses like "That's not easy" are of no value and that it pays to "push through it" at a pace you can handle. Like getting physically fit, the most important thing is that you keep moving forward at whatever pace you choose, recognizing the consequences of your actions.
Ray Dalio
#80. A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
Kin Hubbard
#81. My audience wants to see me beautifully gowned, and I have spared no expense or pains ... For I feel that the best is none too good for the public that pays to hear a singer.
Ma Rainey
#82. It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have the eyes to see.
Mark Lawrence
#84. If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.
Alan Ayckbourn
#86. If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.
Evan Osnos
#87. It pays to be content with your lot.
Aesop
#88. Hypocrisy is a sort of homage that vice pays to virtue.
Various
#89. The codfish lays ten thousand eggs.
The homely hen lays one.
Codfish never cackles to tell you what she has done.
And so we scorn the codfish,
while the humble hen we prize,
which only goes to show you that it pays to advertise!
Nikhil Sharda
#90. Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.
Winston Churchill
#91. Every once in a while, it pays to listen to those annoying characters who are just waiting to tell you how to do your job.
Joe McNally
#92. Marrying a divorced man is ecologically responsible; in a world where there are more women than men, it pays to recycle.
Rita Rudner
#93. Roget looked so profoundly timid. What is it like, working for a well-dressed lunatic who pays you triple what anyone else would pay to forget your better judgment?
Anne Rice
#94. Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#95. The theater is a kind of international language, and I like it. But I have a practical bent of mind, too. In any other field, I could make only about a tenth as much as I do acting. That's why I want to be a producer. It pays better, and you have more control.
Carolyn Jones
#96. Listen closely ... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.
Jack Kerouac
#97. Thanks to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, preventive care services, including contraception, will be covered by private insurance plans without co-pays or deductibles.
Sandra Fluke
#98. As the Russians say: 'If you don't pay attention to politics, politics pays attention to you.
Marc Bennetts
#99. A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital - which is the interest - returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country.
Fidel Castro
#100. Love pays attention. Love listens to the fears and the doubts of others and treats them with respect. Love accepts others the way Jesus accepts you.
Rick Warren
