Motivational Quotes

Money

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Money

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

10.

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

11.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

12.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

13.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

15.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

16.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

18.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

20.

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

21.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

22.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

23.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

24.

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

25.

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

26.

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

27.

If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

29.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

30.

God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

31.

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

32.

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

33.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

34.

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

35.

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

36.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

37.

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

39.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

40.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

41.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

42.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

43.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

44.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

45.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

46.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

47.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

49.

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.