Quotes About Life Owes You Nothing

#1. Life owes you nothing. You owe yourself everything.

Corey Taylor

#2. If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way.

Erik Erikson

#3. You can avoid Jesus as Savior by keeping all the moral laws. If you do that, then you have "rights." God owes you answered prayers, and a good life, and a ticket to heaven when you die. You don't need a Savior who pardons you by free grace, for you are your own Savior.

Timothy Keller

#4. Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

George MacDonald

#5. We don't deserve anything, Rowen. We don't deserve punishment, we don't deserve happiness, life owes us nothing. realize that." His voice wasn't gentle anymore; it was as strong as I'd ever heard it. "So we have to take what we want because life sure as shit isn't going to freely hand it over.

Nicole Williams

#6. Stonetooth took his place. "I give you a life for duty," he meowed. "Remember what you owe to your Clan as well as what your Clan owes to you." He touched noses with Brokentail, who flexed his claws briefly and then was still.

Erin Hunter

#7. Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it ...

L.M. Montgomery

#8. This world owes us nothing. Existence is not indebted to us. Humanity lives under this misconception that we deserve life's blessings, that we deserve happiness. But in truth, life owes us nothing

Kelseyleigh Reber

#9. The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.

Baron De Montesquieu

#10. I believe that it was the highest privilege of my life to wear the uniform of the United States Marine Corps. I don't believe the country owes me anything for doing so, but that my serving was partial payment on what I owe our country - a debt that can be never fully paid, but with my life.

Robert Hall

#11. Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.

Fannie Hurst

#12. In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.

Mary J. Blige

#13. My life owes me. Like an overdose, I'm slowly
Drifting into the arms of trouble, then trouble holds me

K'naan

#14. There can be little doubt that man owes some of his greatest successes in the past to the fact that he has not been able to control social life. His continued advance may well depend on his deliberately refraining from exercising controls which are now in his power.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#15. 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

#16. My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life. It's great leverage; we abuse it all the time!

Matt Barr

#17. I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

Emily Giffin

#18. people don't generally believe themselves to be evil. Just strong. And they think that the world owes them something

Mary Elizabeth Summer

#19. The only thing you can justifiably claim that life owes you is an equal measure of what you have given out. And even that is debatable.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#20. Will you prey on those you consider friends and companions, or a stranger who already owes you his life? Know that each path is evil; you must decide which one is the lesser of two.

Julie Kagawa

#21. Life owes you, but sometimes you have to be your own fucking debt collector. And if we have to burn in hell for it, heaven's going to be sparsely populated.

Jo Nesbo

#22. The two most underrated priorities of a woman's life are Love for God and Love for self. Prioritize these two and all other loves will fall into place.

Michele Owes

#23. I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living

Steven Morrissey

#24. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

Anita Diamant

#25. The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something.

Richard Dawkins

#26. I've got no tolerance for a man who hurts women. Every man on this planet owes his life to a woman. I hope they catch the bastard and hang him by his nuts.

Pamela Clare

#27. Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

Maya Angelou

#28. Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

James Bryant Conant

#29. We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.

Timothy Keller

#30. Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.

Mark Twain

#31. Pettigrew owes his life to you. You have sent Voldemort a deputy who is in your debt. When one wizard saves another wizard's life, it creates a certain bond between them . . . and I'm much mistaken if Voldemort wants his servant in the debt of Harry Potter.

J.K. Rowling

#32. I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that.

Matt Chandler

#33. Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of modern medicine. Genetics owes a huge debt to the humble fruit fly. There's almost no branch of the life sciences, in fact, that hasn't leaned heavily on one animal or another.

Sam Kean

#34. We don't deserve punishment, we don't deserve happiness, life owes us nothing. Realize that.

Nicole Williams