Top 36 World Owes You Nothing Quotes
#1. It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.
Owen Wister
#2. I believe the defenders of intelligent design deserve our gratitude for challenging a scientific world view that owes some of the passion displayed by its adherents precisely to the fact that it is thought to liberate us from religion. That world view is ripe for displacement ...
Thomas Nagel
#3. Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.
Orison Swett Marden
#4. The world begins again. Humanity owes its existence to a bit of cosmic whimsy. To a rock. It
Rick Yancey
#5. I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
#6. Today I will remember the world owes me nothing, does not respond to my will,
and goes merrily on with or without my consent.
On the other hand,
I am free to change myself as I see fit.
Ken Montrose
#7. The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.
Owen D. Young
#8. Fake Math owes its existence to a number of things and people who have inspired and assisted this book on its way into the world.
Ryan Fitzpatrick
#9. The world is growing gentle, But few know what she owes To the understanding lily And the judgment of the rose.
Nathalia Crane
#10. It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.
Rose Macaulay
#11. One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.
Christopher Caldwell
#12. The world owes its progress to the men who have dared,
Dale Carnegie
#13. I now find peace in the realization that countless potential masterpieces happen each moment the world over and go unphotographed. The world owes a great debt to all those who have, from a state of exceptional awareness, preserved stillness for us to hold.
Dan Winters
#14. Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion.
Noah Webster
#15. The main theme remains constant: man owes it to himself to reject despair; better to rely on miracles than opt for resignation. By changing himself, man can change the world.
Elie Wiesel
#16. Because the world owes me nothing, and we owe each other the world.
Ani DiFranco
#17. Art owes its origin to Nature herself ... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
Giorgio Vasari
#18. If it turns out that the Mayans are right and the world is going to end, you know what this means?
Lindsay Lohan is a genius. She's been partying her brains out. She owes taxes. She's crashing cars. She's a genius!
Jay Leno
#19. Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.
William Gilmore Simms
#20. Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.
Mark Twain
#21. You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
Henry Ford
#22. I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
Hans Eysenck
#23. The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.
Jean Cocteau
#24. 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
#25. 601If love is a precious resource, it is not one simply extracted from the Third World and implanted in the First; rather, it owes its very existence to a particular cultural alchemy that occurs in the land to which it is imported.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#26. The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.
William Graham Sumner
#27. 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
#28. If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they need without asking for permission; they're driven, talented, and work through negatives by focusing on the positives.
Mike Zimmer
#29. The world owes the artist nothing. The artist owes the world everything.
Craig A. Hart
#30. The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
Thomas A. Edison
#31. Then again, it didn't take me long in the world of corporate law to realize that truth is an afterthought in court. In fact, truth is an afterthought in most trials. But there were six million people who were lied to, during World War II, and somebody owes them the truth.
Jodi Picoult
#33. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
#34. What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.
Harry Crews
#35. I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.
John Wayne
#36. The world owes you nothing. I'm following suit, I owe you Nothing.
Sharon
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