Indebted Quotes

• There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

  Alexander the Great

  Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting

  "Pushing to the Front, or, Success under Difficulties: A Book of Inspiration". Book by Orison Swett Marden (p. 55), 1896.

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• If those who give are conscious of their own generosity and those who receive feel indebted, they are no longer family but rather strangers doing business.

  Zicheng Hong

  Generosity, Giving, Taoism

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• You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

  Melinda Gates

  Helping, Empowering Women, Inspirational Women

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• The obligation to receive reduces our ability to choose whom we wish to be indebted to and puts that power in the hands of others.

  Robert Cialdini

  Hands, Wish, Ability

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• Feel indebted. Feel grateful. Then abundance grows.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Grateful, Abundance, Grows

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (2014). “Celebrating Silence”, p.64, Arktos

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• Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Men, Worship

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• If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

  Melinda Gates

  Positive, Success, Inspiration

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Truth never was indebted to a lie

  Edward Young

  Truth, Lying, Literature

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.226

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• I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.

  Rodrigo Rato

  Country, Mean, Effort

  "IMF Managing Director Discusses Organization’s Role". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. August 5, 2004.

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• Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Life, Women, Acceptance

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• Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Bible, Book, Civilization

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Errors, Humanity, Triumph

  James Madison, Thomas Jefferson (1835). “Resolutions of Virginia and Kentucky”, p.53

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• To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

  James Madison

  Errors, Media, Humanity

  James Madison, Thomas Jefferson (1826). “Resolutions of Virginia and Kentucky”, p.51

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• I am just glad that I can take the music to the people who want to hear it. I love my audiences. I am deeply indebted to them for giving me the chance to sing my concerts, make records, and do what I love. Whatever people call it, it is great to have a voice!

  Judy Collins

  Music, Voice, People

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• To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

  Gerrit Smith

  Rights, Charter, Humans

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• America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

  James Madison

  Art, Agriculture, America

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• For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there.

  Miriam Makeba

  Fighting, Giving, Needs

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• I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

  Alexander the Great

  Fathers Day, Teacher, Appreciation

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• The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Memories, Government

  Speech in reply to Mr Dundas, in T. Moore 'Life of Sheridan' (1825) 2, 471

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• I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.

  W. C. Fields

  Beautiful, Drinking, Wine

  Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (motion picture) (1941).

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• The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.

  Ben Nicholson

  Uncles, Grandmother, Organization

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• It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Names, India, Stories

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• A prince indebted is a fortune made.

  Edward Young

  Made, Fortune

  Edward Young (1756). “The Brothers: A Tragedy”, p.6

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• I love my country, By which I mean, I am indebted joyfully, To all the people throughout its history, Who have fought the government to make right, Where so many cunning sons and daughters, Our foremothers and forefathers, Came singing through slaughter, Came through hell and high water, So that we could stand here, And behold breathlessly the sight, How a raging river of tears, Cut a grand canyon of light... Why can't all decent men and women, Call themselves feminists? Out of respect, For those who fought for this...

  Ani DiFranco

  Country, Daughter, Mean

  "Song: Grand Canyon (Educated Guess)". January 20, 2004.

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• A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.

  John Milton

  Gratitude, Grateful, Mind

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 55

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