These check quotes will inspire you. Check, something that limits or restrains or looks at (something) carefully to find mistakes, problems, etc., or to make sure there is nothing wrong with it.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging check quotes, check sayings, and check proverbs.
Best Check Quotes
- “Yesterday is a canceled check;
Tomorrow is a promissory note;
Today is the only cash you have,
so spend it wisely.” ~ Kim Lyons - “Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.” ~ Ayn Rand
- “Carpe per diem – seize the check.” ~ Robin Williams
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“The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.” ~ Rupert Murdoch
- “When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.” ~ Piers Anthony
- “People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.” ~ Walt Disney
- “After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.” ~ Michael J. Fox
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“I’m also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time.” ~ Michael J. Fox
- “I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I’d spent about half the day in the woods.” ~ Jeff Foxworthy
- “Our country, if you read the ‘Federalist Papers,’ is about disagreement. It’s about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob – not the mob itself.” ~ Jonah Goldberg
- “I don’t care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
- “If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.” ~ Dan Quayle
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“We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?” ~ Will Rogers
- “Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.” ~ Babe Ruth
- “Everyone checks out my mom. My mom’s hot.” ~ Ashley Scott
- “I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That’s just a little thing, though.” ~ Tori Spelling
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“I’m the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don’t believe it, check the cash register.” ~ Mike Tyson
- “We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- “An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.” ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
- “Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.” ~ Rene Daumal
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“When you’re rich, you don’t write checks. Straight cash, homey.” ~ Randy Moss
- “When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man’s soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
- “Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.” ~ Don Drysdale
- “We’re a big check mark on everybody’s schedule. I told them it’s just another challenge; let’s go after it.” ~ Dick Butkus
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“So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.” ~ Gavin DeGraw
- “I’ve made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I’ve often veered to check something out.” ~ Gary Burton
- “Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.” ~ Walter Savage Landor
- “Our people get profit-sharing checks. I got a report the other day that says that 84 percent of our people participate in our stock purchase program, where they can buy stock at a 15 percent discount.” ~ David Neeleman
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“The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there’s no check-off box for you, you don’t exist.” ~ Jack Anderson
- “But I thought, I’ve just got to check out Hollywood, so I sent out pictures and resumes.” ~ Delta Burke
- “Many scammers are only using personal checks for payment because they can take the money and run.” ~ Matthew Lesko
- “It’s too hard a life for me. I could only do it – check out in that sense – if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.” ~ Derek Jacobi
- “Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers.” ~ Todd Tiahrt
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“I didn’t send back any of the royalty checks.” ~ Ira Levin
- “These are clothes my friends and I could wear. This ain’t Prada. I don’t want to be one of those celebrities that slaps their name on a label and collects royalty checks. Everything on that runway reflects me.” ~ Nicky Hilton , Check quotes friends
- “We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don’t get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it’s almost a temper tantrum.” ~ Charles Schumer
- “Well, I think the global economy is in the position for continuing good growth with inflation well in check.” ~ John W. Snow
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“It’s hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.” ~ Russell Banks
- “I still look good. I’m trippin’, but people tell me that all the time. So check it out, I’m 63, and still kicking. I’ve been putting records out every year.” ~ Roy Ayers
- “Working with Yahoo! allows us to give our fans a chance to listen to our songs, check out the video, purchase our new album, win tickets to our show, and chat with us all in one place.” ~ Isaac Hanson
- “If Congress doesn’t raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check.” ~ Grace Napolitano
- “You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I’d end up feeling totally insecure about myself.” ~ Elle Macpherson
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“I’m no different from anybody else. If I don’t have a card, I can’t check out these books.” ~ Bess Truman
- “The Internet is no longer the kind of thing where only six guys in the world can build it. Now, you can write a couple of checks and get one of your own.” ~ Paul Vixie
- “Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can’t compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.” ~ William E. Simon
- “You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who’s Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.” ~ Chevy Chase
- “There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn’t be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers – and you can buy guns without background checks.” ~ Michael D. Barnes
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“I haven’t sold to the movies. In other words, I haven’t gotten any enormous checks yet.” ~ Jack Vance
- “No, I don’t autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.” ~ Jack L. Chalker
- “When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser’s country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.” ~ Carroll Quigley
- “I don’t know if I’ve ever had a memorable body check. It’s not really part of my game.” ~ Steve Yzerman
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“The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they’re big and fast.” ~ G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.
- “We must have systems of checks and balances to make sure that those people who are making critical decisions for our country are held accountable, and nowhere is that more important than in the area of national security.” ~ Chris Van Hollen
- “As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Ann Richards on How to Be a Good Republican: 1. You have to believe that the nation’s current 8-year prosperity was due to the work of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, but yesterday’s gasoline prices are all Clinton’s fault. 2. You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own. 3. You have to be against all government programs, but expect Social Security checks on time.” ~ Ann Richards
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“We have to keep our eye on inflation, but so far inflation remains reasonably in check on the global stage.” ~ John W. Snow
- “These guys who keep on playing but aren’t winning, you’ve got to sit them down and let them figure it out and perform a little gut-check on themselves.” ~ Payne Stewart
- “If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.” ~ Patty Murray
- “The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they’re really happy to be there.” ~ Jock Sturges
- “It’s a real gift to have a husband and wife in the company that love each other and that work together. They check on each other emotionally and physically. That’s beautiful to me.” ~ Judith Jamison
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“This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it’s all checks and no balances.” ~ Gracie Allen
- “Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.” ~ Steve Allen
- “Do not let your fire go out … Do not let the Hero in your soul perish … Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.” ~ Ayn Rand
- “Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.” ~ Madame de Stael
