35 Quotes About Unpaid Debts

Dealing with debt can be overwhelming and make all prospects of being debt free seem impossible in your future. These quotes about unpaid debt highlight the common characteristics and mentalities surrounding this undesirable financial responsibility.

“A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.”

“A man in debt is so far a slave.”

“America’s fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.”

“Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.”

“By teaching twenty-something year olds responsible debt management practices, we can help them create a balanced lifestyle and find peace of mind through increased financial awareness, smart saving and long-term investing.”

“Credit is an ‘I love debt’ score.”

“Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.”

“Debt is one person’s liability, but another person’s asset.”

“First our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.”

“Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.”

“I don’t have more money. I won’t have more money than any of the candidates, even the Republican candidates. We know that already. But we are building this campaign team like I would build a business. And that is, we are building it so far with no debt.”

“If you have debt I’m willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.”

“It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.”

“Make this the year you tackle that credit card debt once and for all.”

“My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.”

“People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don’t get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don’t start a family before you’re ready to settle down.”

“Produce what you consume; draw from the native element the necessaries of life. Permit no vitiated taste to lead you into the indulgence of expensive luxuries, which can only be obtained by involving yourselves in debt.”

“Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.”

“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”

“The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt.”

“The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don’t things are just going to head in a direction that’s going to be almost impossible to recover from.”

“The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.”

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt.”

“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.”

“There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.”

“To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.”

“Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.”

“We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.”

“We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.”

“We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.”

“What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?”

“Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.”

“Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.”

“Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.”

“You can’t be in debt and win. It doesn’t work.”

If your are being accused of having debt that is not accurate, disputing your unpaid debt will help you seek resolution.