These afford quotes will inspire you. Afford have enough money to pay for or provide or supply (an opportunity or facility).
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging afford quotes, afford sayings, and afford proverbs.
Famous Afford Quotes
- “Only great minds can afford a simple style. Stendhal It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.” Ellen Goodman
- “You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.” Gary Ryan Blair
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“Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.” David Bowie
- “A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t keep us from buying it.” William Feather
- “Handmade things tend to be so expensive that only a small part of the population can afford them. And yet making things with hands is such an essential part of being human.” Jessica Stockholder
- “Boxing’s a poor man’s sport. We can’t afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It’s kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street.” Sugar Ray Leonard , Can’t afford quotes
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“Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they’re 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.” Ed Markey
- “I’m like a menu at an expensive restaurant; you can look at me, but you can’t afford me.” Anna Kournikova
- “Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can’t. I believe more children’s lives can be saved if we work towards it.” Mahesh Babu
- “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
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“Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.” John Henrik Clarke
- “It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.” Thomas Sowell
- “You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” Samuel Johnson
- “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” Henry David Thoreau
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“Just because you can afford it doesn’t mean you should buy it.” Suze Orman
- “I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.” Phyllis Diller
- “You can’t afford to get sick, and you can’t depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It’s up to you to protect and maintain your body’s innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.” Andrew Weil
- “For a slim, sexy body, it’s important to eat protein every day – preferably at every meal. Be sure to ask about the origins of your meat, poultry and seafood. If you can’t afford organic, free-range meats, opt for natural poultry, pork, and beef that’s raised without antibiotics or hormones.” Suzanne Somers
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“Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can’t afford divisive polity in India.” Manmohan Singh
- “Clean air shouldn’t be a privilege dictated by where you can afford to live but a right to which we are all entitled.” Kevin de Leon
- “I’m a sucker for turquoise sea, white beaches and palm trees. I’ve been to the tropics every year since I could afford it. It’s the perfect place to unwind. I can chill out, read, do a bit of yoga.” Bruno Tonioli
- “The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.” Martin Scorsese
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“Success is about persistence. You can only afford to be persistent in something you deeply enjoy.” Cenk Uygur
- “I come from a very humble background. My father had to work really hard to become an assistant director. For a large part of his youth, he worked in a mill and took up odd jobs to make ends meet. We lived in a small room and could only afford a meal a day.” Dhanush
- “We can’t afford to go down the dead-end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.” John Blair
- “If you have to ask how much it costs, you can’t afford it.” J. P. Morgan
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“We can’t afford to leave Afghanistan to the Taliban and the terrorists.” Condoleezza Rice
- “Remember the Tea Party movement didn’t get started in September of 2008 when the bank bailout was passed. It really began on Feb. 19th, 2009 when a television commentator named Rick Santelli stood up and said what the hell are we doing bailing out people who couldn’t afford a mortgage by taking money from people like me who are prudent?” Karl Rove , Afford quotes money
- “I don’t dye my hair. It’s so fabulous. I had brown hair for so long. I was always getting my roots done. Sometimes I did it myself because I couldn’t afford to go to a hair salon. When I turned 60, I decided to see what color I am underneath. I started dyeing my hair a very light blond and then I let it grow out. I cut it very short.” Maye Musk
- “We can’t afford to lose all that we’ve built from the ashes of the Korean War.” Moon Jae-in
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“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” Samuel Johnson
- “Every parent wants to do what’s best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I’m going to get my kid the best education I can get.”.Michael Moore
- “When I told my doctor I couldn’t afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.” Henny Youngman
- “The Internet moves very fast. In the old world, we could afford to sit and analyze forever. But in the new world, the first mover has the advantage.” Raymond Kwok
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“When I was a kid, I used to think, ‘Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat, that’s as rich as I ever want to be.’ Jimmy Dean
- “True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” Henry David Thoreau
- “So much of life is not about whether you’re good or bad, or right or wrong, or can afford or not afford – it’s just about timing.” A. A. Gill
- “The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.” Mr. T
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“I thought I couldn’t afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: ‘Oh well,’ and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.” Benny Hill
- “I think it’s hugely important to have a strong episode one; you can lose an audience so quickly now. You can’t afford to take the attitude that you will use the first one as an introduction and save the high drama for later.” Jed Mercurio
- “I cannot afford to waste my time making money.” Louis Agassiz
- “Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.” Anthony Trollope
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“If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can’t afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.” Paul LePage
- “I’m like an expensive menu… you can look but you can’t afford!” Anna Kournikova
- “My mom let me play in her clothes, wear makeup, and I had high heels from a thrift store. My mom tells me that the only reason she let me dress in her clothes is because she couldn’t afford any toys, and it seemed entertaining enough and kept her from having to buy me anything, ’cause everything I wanted was in her makeup box or wardrobe.” Sharon Needles
- “Make it so people can actually find good housing, can find good quality jobs and can afford to live – then we can weaken the climate of insecurity and fear that allow people to be exploited to increase division.” Jagmeet Singh
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“If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can’t afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I’m all for it.” Keith Haring
- “Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning… Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.”Lynn Margulis
- “If you’re going to buy a suit, don’t buy one off the peg if you can afford not to. Go to a tailor, as I always do; find the style you like, and have it fitted to your shape.” Tamer Hassan
- “The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master’s ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.” Walter Lippmann
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“I am not afraid of making mistakes. But my mistakes were those that I could afford. That’s very important: mistakes will happen but you must ensure that you keep them within limits you can afford.” Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
- Learn to invest in the best quality you can afford and wear pieces in different ways.” Michael Kors
- “My theory was that good furniture could be priced so that the man with the flat wallet would be attracted to it, would make a place for it in his spending, and could afford it.” Ingvar Kamprad
- “The greatest luxury now in being reasonably well-off – overlooking the Ferrari and the aeroplane – is that I can always go for a curry without worrying if I can afford it.” James May
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“When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn’t afford to pay attention.” Mr. T
- “Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.” Chris Christie
- “What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?” George Bernard Shaw
- “We cannot afford to continue losing our coral reefs, which are suffering from a number of threats such as warmer temperatures, more acidic waters, and disease, and that is why Hawaii has become a leader in taking steps to mitigate the harmful impacts of sunscreen on our marine environment.” Mazie Hirono
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“Yes, we have ruined the Earth and have done an exceptionally good job of it. Yes, we should look at sustainable development. But we cannot afford to do things sequentially, but parallelly and make sure that we do not repeat our mistakes.” Rakesh Sharma
- “For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.” Paul Martin
- “When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn’t afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po’.” George Foreman
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“Humans have 3 percent human error, and a lot of companies can’t afford to be wrong 3 percent of the time anymore, so we close that 3 percent gap with some of the technologies. The AI we’ve developed doesn’t make mistakes.” Walter O’Brien
- “In Egypt, where my research is focused, I have seen plenty of trouble in and out of the citadel. There are legions of young men who can’t afford to get married because marriage has become a very expensive proposition. They are expected to bear the burden of costs in married life, but they can’t find jobs.” Shereen El Feki
- “Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.” Donald Rumsfeld
