Quotes About No One Owes You Anything

#1. I do think opportunity breeds bravery. It's such a competitive profession, no one owes you anything, talent in itself is not enough. I went to drama school with so many great actors who are not doing it anymore and it's circumstantial.

David Oyelowo

#2. No one owes you anything.

Timothy Ferriss

#3. 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

#4. I think the biggest lesson that I've learned is that no one owes you anything. It doesn't matter if you've worked with this person, or you have a piece of work that you think is great. It doesn't mean they're going to agree with you and give you money to do it.

Reagan Gomez-Preston

#5. 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

#6. It's odd how much our perception of cities owes to stories and films.We talk about 'Dickensian' London as if it had some real existence beyond the page. Deep down, despite the evidence of our lives, we can't really believe that anything is ever made up.

Joel Lane

#7. I don't have anything to pay you with now," Blake said, turning toward Chaos. "But just tell me how much, and I'll make sure this debt is paid."
Chaos shrugged. "Dude, I owe Beckett. Just let him know."
Blake nodded and stood. Of course. Everyone owes Beckett something.

Debra Anastasia

#8. 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

#9. From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success ... I'm just here to cash in.

Bill Watterson

#10. The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.

Vik Muniz

#11. Tony Swan, Jorge Sanchez, Calvin Franz, Frances Neagley, Stanley Lowrey, Manuel Orozco, David O'Donnell, and Karla Dixon.

Lee Child

#12. Creative entitlement doesn't mean behaving like a princess, or acting as though the world owes you anything whatsoever. No, creative entitlement simply means believing that you are allowed to be here, and that - merely by being here - you are allowed to have a voice and a vision of your own. The

Elizabeth Gilbert

#13. No one owes us anything. We only owe ourselves to get off our backsides, count our blessings, and face our challenges. When you live from that perspective, the gifts pour forth.

Bronnie Ware

#14. I let them think I did that" said Jace "My reign of terror continues

Cassandra Clare

#15. When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything.

Harry Browne

#16. Knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy, dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.

Albert Einstein

#17. It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

Plato

#18. The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don't owe baseball anything. Baseball owes me.

Hank Aaron

#19. You shouldn't say I can't until you've tried.

Patrick Henry Hughes

#20. You're the only woman in the world I want to be amazing in bed for or to give mind-blowing, multiple oragasms to.

Katie Ashley

#21. 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

#22. I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

Bill Gates

#23. One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

Mary J. Blige

#24. While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.

Al Sharpton

#25. I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.

Rachel Kushner

#26. No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming out of inner necessity.

Aleksandar Hemon

#27. I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

Bob Feller

#28. If anything is due to a corporation, it is not due to the individual members thereof, nor do the members individually owe what the corporation owes.

Justinian I

#29. Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.

Cullen Hightower

#30. When you watch CNN and they're giving you news based on tweets that people are sending out, you realize that society is really changing. The collective public have a really big voice that they didn't previously have, and they're influencing the trajectory of how we are socially with one another.

Megan Fox

#31. Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt -
an image of the world in which men can again believe.

Archibald MacLeish

#32. Remember that no one owes your dream anything, by measure of ensuring that you succeed; that is entirely up to you.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#33. You have been in politics long enough to know that no man in public office owes the public anything.

Mark Hanna

#34. My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#35. A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

Harry Browne

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

Joel Osteen

#37. 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

#38. 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