A Quote by George Herbert

He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is courteous.

George Herbert

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Courteous Makes Nothing Owes Us

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George Herbert
British - Poet
April 3, 1593 - March 1, 1633

The community owes us nothing. It's up to us to go out and earn their respect.

Jerry Colangelo

An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance... Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes" - he owes performance and nothing else. .... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

Peter Drucker

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Mark Twain

The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.

George Herbert

It's important to be courteous; it has to be. I was raised very well by my parents, so it's about being polite and courteous.

Daniel Sturridge

The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.

Ani DiFranco

The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.

Thomas A. Edison

Nothing is gained by not being kind and courteous.

Neal Adams

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

Mark Caine

One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.

Thomas Sowell

There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.

Seneca the Younger

It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Francis Bacon

Creating doesn't make us unhappy, unhappiness makes us creative. To create is to live, and in living, we want only to creat more, to set our foundations depper and reach higher toward the sky. If sadness is what makes us creative, then sadness is nothing else but life.

Eric G. Wilson

Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It's a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape - finally makes us look inward at ourselves.

Tim O'Brien

I'm constantly reminding myself that the world owes us nothing. We have to make our way and we have to work hard, persevere and make our own way in the world because the world isn't waiting for us, so let's let the world know we are here.