Welcome to our curated collection of Debt Quotes! Debt is a concept that touches the lives of many, whether it’s in the form of personal loans, credit card balances, or even national debts. It’s a subject that has been a source of contemplation, frustration, and even humor for countless individuals throughout history. On this page, you’ll find a diverse array of insightful, thought-provoking, and sometimes humorous quotes about debt. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, financial wisdom, or simply looking for a clever way to express your thoughts on debt, you’ve come to the right place. Below, you’ll discover a treasury of debt-related quotes that you can use, share, and even adorn with stylish fonts to add a touch of creativity to your message. So, scroll down, explore these quotes, and find the perfect words to articulate your thoughts on the topic of debt!
It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery. Patrick Henry
Gold has intrinsic value. The problem with the dollar is it has no intrinsic value. And if the Federal Reserve is going to spend trillions of them to buy up all these bad mortgages and all other kinds of bad debt, the dollar is going to lose all of its value. Gold will store its value, and you’ll always be able to buy more food with your gold. Peter Schiff
Make this the year you tackle that credit card debt once and for all. Suze Orman
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
All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation – and world – for the better. Eliot Engel
King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France… settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France. Joan of Arc
And being in the EU has given Britain a stronger voice in the world. Britain leads in Europe, from trade to climate change, from good governance to debt relief for the poorest nations, and in turn Europe helps to lead the world. Hilary Benn
God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace. William Gurnall
A man in debt is so far a slave. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people are just stuck in their ways and have been brainwashed into believing that credit cards and debt are an unavoidable part of life. Dave Ramsey
While we can’t begin to repay the debt we owe our veterans for their brave service, we can certainly take steps to ease the physical, psychological and financial hardships they may be experiencing. Kirsten Gillibrand
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. Noam Chomsky
Take any person, put them in the wrong environment, and they can get off to some pretty bad things. Warren Buffett has said that he would not like to get into debt because he doesn’t want to discover what behavior he’s capable of. Guy Spier
Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things. Muhammad Yunus
My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous man who ran a shop in Dundee giving a lot of people tick. When he died, a lot of people hadn’t paid their bills, so he died with a lot of debt. After he died, my mother went doolally. Brian Cox
I’ve always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don’t see me as just Harry Potter, I’ll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They’re letting me prove that I’m serious about this. Daniel Radcliffe
You’re trying to sleep off a debt that you’ve lumbered your brain and body with during the week, and wouldn’t it be lovely if sleep worked like that? Sadly, it doesn’t. Sleep is not like the bank, so you can’t accumulate a debt and then try and pay it off at a later point in time. Matthew Walker
War has generally had grave and fateful consequences for the American monetary and financial system. We have seen that the Revolutionary War occasioned a mass of depreciated fiat paper, worthless Continentals, a huge public debt, and the beginnings of central banking in the Bank of North America. Murray Rothbard
Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Forgive: Make a conscious decision to cease to harbor resentment, which includes forgiving a debt and giving up one’s resolve to retaliate. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world. Vince Cable
Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not? Pat Paulsen
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have younger friends who are in this pinch where they feel they’ve been counted out before they’ve had a chance to prove themselves. They’ve inherited a lot of debt – not just student debt but environmental debt, political debt. They really feel squeezed. G. Willow Wilson
I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter. Warren Buffett
Consumerism is the reason Christmas has morphed into a hollow shopping ritual that leaves too many families with debt hangovers and an empty feeling inside. Rachel Campos-Duffy
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
Sorrow ages you prematurely. When you’re in emotional debt, you’re pessimistic about the future and, even in your green years, long to return to the past to remedy the shortfalls of love and opportunity you suffered. David Viscott
Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact. Noam Chomsky
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. Carl Jung
But obviously, we’re looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it. David Axelrod
The moment a large investor doesn’t believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it will, a crisis of confidence could develop. Investors have scant patience for the years of good governance – politically fraught fiscal restructuring, austerity and debt rescheduling – it takes to defuse a sovereign-debt crisis. Andrew Ross Sorkin
There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt. P. T. Barnum
If Congress adds 5 percent to the debt, then their pay should be cut by 5 percent. Ron DeSantis
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. Carl Jung
As our nation’s student debt crisis has reached a breaking point, we’ve been hearing lots of talk about student loan forgiveness. It’s taken me 20 years to forgive myself for my loan – and just as long to pay it off. Camille Perri
Debt certainly isn’t always a bad thing. A mortgage can help you afford a home. Student loans can be a necessity in getting a good job. Both are investments worth making, and both come with fairly low interest rates. Jean Chatzky
There are two major problems that come out of COVID-19: the massive unemployment that is destroying the revenues for our programs, the paychecks for our families, and the sense of purpose for our workers. The second is the astronomical levels of household government and corporate debt. Pierre Poilievre
Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory. James Lankford
A gentleman pays his debt within a week or two. Charles Oakley
The FREED Vets Act will make student debt forgiveness for eligible disabled veterans automatic, both now and in the future. Conor Lamb
I don’t come from a family that had the money to put me through college, so I left school with $100,000 in student loan debt. Candace Owens
The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other. Menachem Begin
There are no shortcuts when it comes to getting out of debt. Dave Ramsey
This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt. Earl Wilson
Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt. Benjamin Franklin
Ultimately, multiple livelihood opportunities alone can insulate farmers in rainfed areas from the debt trap. M. S. Swaminathan
Your FICO score is an “I love debt” score. You’re going to pay a bazillion dollars in interest to keep your FICO score up in order to have lower homeowner’s and car insurance rates. Dave Ramsey
Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. George Dennison Prentice
Our growing national debt is a threat to our national defense and to our domestic priorities, including research and development, education, health care, and investments in our economic growth. Seth Moulton
Our government is deeply disordered; its credit is impaired; its debt increasing; its expenditures extravagant and wasteful; its disbursements without efficient accountability; and its taxes (for duties are but taxes) enormous, unequal, and oppressive to the great producing classes of the country. John C. Calhoun
I’m still a fiscal conservative, and I’m inclined to pay down debt. Jim Flaherty
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. Herbert Hoover
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt. Henrik Ibsen
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. Alexander Hamilton
We have to make it easier to afford to go into education in the first place, so you don’t leave with crippling debt that you never have a chance to pay back because you’re not making enough money. Gretchen Whitmer
The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents – who we haven’t given enough credit to anyway – for giving us another generation. Steven Spielberg
Millennials are concerned with national debt and the deficits. Margaret Hoover
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. E. O. Wilson
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. Allen Boyd
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. John Buchan
Consumer banking – selling debt to middle class families – has been a gold mine. Elizabeth Warren
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
We have determined as a society, as a country, as a people, that the incarceration and the supervision and the specific fines for a particular crime are that person’s debt to society. Loretta Lynch
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? Adam Smith
The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled. Ross Perot
I was never stupid with my money, because I grew up without it. So when I started to make some, I was like, ‘Okay, first rule of thumb, I’m not buying it unless I’ve got the money to buy it,’ so I have no debt. Edge
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. Queen Elizabeth II
The inflated imitations of gold and silver, which after the rapture are thrown into the fire, all is exhausted and dissipated by the debt. All scrips and bonds are wiped out. At the fourth pillar dedicated to Saturn, split by earthquake and flood: vexing everyone, an urn of gold is found and then restored. Nostradamus
Without growth we can’t pay down our debt, and without growth there’s no money for welfare. Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Whether we are working to pay off student loans, credit card debt, paying for elder or childcare, or even trying to save for retirement, the idea of the American dream still remains just that – a dream. Adrienne C. Moore
The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once – join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days. Marilu Henner
The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt. Ruben Hinojosa
People end up on the street for many different reasons – leaving care or hospital, problems with debt, unemployment, mental health, family breakup – and so the help they need is varied, too. Sadiq Khan
Fannie Mae is owned by shareholders but operates under a federal charter that exempts it from paying state or local taxes. As a result, many professional investors think the government would repay the debt that Fannie Mae had issued if the company could not, although Fannie Mae explicitly says that its bonds do not carry a federal guarantee. Alex Berenson
We owe the Greatest Generation a debt we can never fully repay. Tommy Tuberville
Congress needs to stop kicking the proverbial spending can down the road and make the hard decisions necessary to rein in our debt and balance the federal budget. Lauren Boebert
I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office. Barack Obama
It’s heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt. William J. Clinton
Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due. Will Rogers
I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful. Elon Musk
I have heard firsthand from several small business owners about their struggle to borrow and their fear of taking on additional debt. Sam Graves
To Tennessee Williams we owe a special debt. In a tragic age, he has transformed loneliness by naming it for us, suffered sordidness with beauty, graced poor hurt lives with love and pity. William Jay Smith
The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate. Oliver E. Williamson
The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default. Alan Greenspan
Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don’t care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called ‘Order Of Death,’ and they’ve really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That’s living! John Lydon
No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure. Edmund Phelps
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. Nancy Friday
I’m the king of debt. Masayoshi Son
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. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting. Bill Gates
But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay. Euripides
The United States has never prioritized or failed to pay any obligation when due during a debt limit impasse. Despite the institutional risks and the lack of clear legal authority, we assume that Treasury will attempt to prioritize payments in a last-ditch effort to avoid default. Jerome Powell
The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged… and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion. Alan Greenspan
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
When you run a company, you want to hand it off in better shape than you found it. In the same way, just as we shouldn’t leave our children or grandchildren with mountains of national debt and unsustainable entitlement programs, we shouldn’t leave them with the economic and environmental costs of climate change. Henry Paulson
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. Joel Osteen
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible. Rutherford B. Hayes
A promise made is a debt unpaid. Robert W. Service
In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
