It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.
Walter Kaufmann

It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him.
Frederick Sanger

It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places.
Jeff Ament

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
Bob Dylan

Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their families, and those who by their glorious wounds have deserved the credit of their country.
Giuseppe Garibaldi

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.
Ludwig von Mises

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
Charles Spurgeon

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.
Julia Ward Howe

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
Morgan Freeman

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.
Ike Skelton

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
Woodrow Wilson

My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda.
Rick Derringer

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
George Washington

My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don't owe you a penny.
Cindy Sheehan

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Honore de Balzac

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
Ramana Maharshi

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?
Lauryn Hill

On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life.
John James Audubon