you owe it to yourself to do something

owe | Business English

owe
verb[ T ]
uk /əʊ/us
FINANCE, COMMERCE
to need to pay or give something to someone because they have lent money to you:
owe sb $5/$500, etc.I owe you £200.
How much do we owe the bank?
He claims the firm owes him money.
owe $5/$500, etc. to sbThe company owes $618 million to its creditors.
owe $100/$1000, etc. on sthWe still owe $1000 on our car.
owe $100/$1000, etc. in sthThe government alleges that he owes $54 million in unpaid taxes.
to have had someone help you or do something good for you, so that you should do something similar for them:
He owes you a favor for helping him with the project.
owe sb (one)Thanks - I owe you one!

Examples of owe

owe
Since a claim is a duty owed particularly to the person, the unfairness is plainly suffered by that person.
When making these observations, however, flight was ignored, owing to the difficulties caused by its very short duration in the small observation-jars.
Unfortunately, two of the three maps are difficult to read owing to the poor quality of reproduction.
Urban respondents were more likely to owe money to a loan-agent, and less likely to owe it to a bank.
We describe their second approach here owing to its simplicity.
The unpunctured spherical film drains, owing to gravity, eventually becoming naturally unstable when its thickness is of order 0.07pm.
Furthermore, owing to their self-electric field, they would drift in the negative x direction.
I was able to record such a large body of data owing to the assistance of my friends, many of whom were network marketers themselves.
Nor is identification unconditionally owed to existing institutions.
The latter type displays a fairly complex distribution, owing to the fact that it can sometimes appear in contexts without overt negation.
Presumably, the pulses are not as strong for low and high k, owing to interference with the forcing and dissipation.
Prices become merely nominal if payment is not instantaneously done, no man knows what he owes, and yet everything is done on credit.
During the dry season the locusts could be approached nearer than during the rains, owing to their inactivity when the humidity is low.
The localized solutions, at early times, are found to be damped owing to the dust-charge fluctuations.
The consequences of such an encounter are expected to lead to a complex pattern of vortices owing to cut and connect processes and pairing processes.
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