Quotes About Paying Debt

#1. There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

Thomas Carlyle

#2. Paying debt service to banks leaves less income to buy goods and services.

Michael Hudson

#3. Pay your tithes and offerings out of honesty and integrity because they are God's rightful due ... Paying tithing is not a token gift we are somehow charitably bestowing upon God. Paying tithing is discharging a debt.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#4. Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I'm the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.

Robert Kiyosaki

#5. If you've got $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, you're better off paying off any debt you have because that's a guaranteed return.

Mark Cuban

#6. We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.

Marco Rubio

#7. Cheerfulness is a debt we owe to society, in the paying of which we receive a generous discount. We can not open our hearts to give out cheer without more cheer rushing in to take its place.

Alice Hegan Rice

#8. Once you get into debt, it's hell to get out. Don't let credit card debt carry over. You can't get ahead paying eighteen percent.

Charlie Munger

#9. Human beings owe a debt of love to one another because there is no other method of paying the debt of love and care which all of us owe to providence.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#10. Jimmy put in a word and told them that if I made it, I wouldn't be able to live with myself without paying them back. That I'd sooner die than owe anyone money for helping me.
Apparently Jimmy knew more about me at that point than I knew about myself.

Craig Ferguson

#11. An example of good debt is the debt on the apartment houses I own. That debt is good only as long as there are tenants to pay my mortgages. If tenants stop paying their rent, my good debt turns into bad debt.

Robert Kiyosaki

#12. Rule number one in paying yourself first is: Don't get into consumer debt in the rst place.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#13. But I can't say that gratitude was my motive for infringing on the Law of Cultural Embargo. I was not paying my debt to him. Such debts remain owing. Estraven and I had simply arrived at the point where we shared whatever we had that was worth sharing.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#14. It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.

Saint Ambrose

#15. You'll get the biggest bang for each buck by paying off the highest interest rate debt in your portfolio first, while making minimum payments on the remainder. It's called the avalanche method, and it gets you out of debt cheapest and fastest.

Jean Chatzky

#16. When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.

Ben Carson

#17. I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy: it keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.

Alan Greenspan

#18. The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

Javier Bardem

#19. Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.' Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross.

John Stott

#20. Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying.

Stefan Molyneux

#21. Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

Mark Twain

#22. The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then?

John Milton

#23. By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.

Charles Caleb Colton

#24. Lobola ("bride price") is a retired broke father's last hope to paying off his debts.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#25. And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology.

Sinclair Lewis

#26. When you hear the phrase "rescue the financial system," translate it in your mind into "keep the debts on the books." They are trying to find a way for you (and debtor nations too) to keep paying and for the debt to keep growing.

Charles Eisenstein

#27. Be careful when you take on debt. If you take on debt personally, make sure it is small. If you take on large debt, make sure someone else is paying for it.

Robert Kiyosaki

#28. Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

Will Rogers

#29. Too many of us never understand what we owe to our dear ones until there remains no further opportunity of paying love's debt.

J.R. Miller

#30. When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts.

Joyce Meyer

#31. Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.

Jennifer Dunn

#32. Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

George Dennison Prentice

#33. Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.

Charles Caleb Colton

#34. Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

Mark Twain

#35. I've found that when you can quickly knock out debt you get motivated because you see progress. Then you attack the other debt so fast that even if it's at a higher interest rate, you don't end up paying much more because you've gotten rid of it.

Michelle Singletary

#36. Borrowers were told not to worry about paying the ever-mounting debt, because house prices would keep rising and they could refinance, taking out some of the capital gains to buy a car or pay for a vacation.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

#37. What if...what if that is the price one has to pay for staying on? Perhaps that is how they look at it: perhaps that is how I should look at it too. They see me as owing something. They see themselves as debt collectors, tax collectors. Why should I be allowed to live here without paying?

J.M. Coetzee

#38. For too many years, politicians in Washington have been eager to pledge more hard-earned taxpayer dollars to help deal with the student debt load. But this doesn't sit right with the many Americans who take pride in making fiscally responsible choices and paying off their loans on time.

John Kline

#39. Too often, we make budget cuts - then blow the savings. Instead, think about your financial picture. Do you have high-interest rate debt? Paying it off faster will save you a bundle.

Jean Chatzky

#40. College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.

Hank Johnson

#41. No man deserves a woman like that. He mortgages his very soul to win her and spends his life paying off the debt.

Tessa Dare

#42. Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

Philip Sidney

#43. My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.

Jack Dangermond

#44. Do you have to regret spending money when you earn money? And when it is time to spend, you should be strong that you got the opportunity to pay off your debt. Income is one's responsibility and expense is the means to clear off the responsibility.

Dada Bhagwan

#45. Debt deflation is when there's less money that people have to spend out of their paychecks on goods and services, because they're paying the FIRE sector. Oil going down is a function of the supply and demand of oil in the market. It's a separate phenomenon.

Michael Hudson

#46. If you put a purchase on a charge card, you're paying it off forever. You have to know how to pay it off before you go deeply in debt.

Gregory Meeks