Quotes Tagged "money"

Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret.

Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.

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

Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.

There is nothing around me but money, money, money.

Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others--the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it yields to the majority of its possessors the poorest return in heart's contentment.

The average human being is actually quite bad at predicting what he or she should do in order to be happier, and this inability to predict keeps people from, well, being happier. In fact, psychologist Daniel Gilbert has made a career out of demonstrating that human beings are downright awful at predicting their own likes and dislikes. For example, most research subjects strongly believe that another $30,000 a year in income would make them much happier. And they feel equally strongly that adding a 30-minute walk to their daily routine would be of trivial import. And yet Dr. Gilbert’s research suggests that the added income is far less likely to produce an increase in happiness than the addition of a regular walk.

You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character. 

[Poem: Slates of Grey] Sullen faces like slates of grey— What I’d seen on a walk today. Bodies rushing bodies bolting Time for life a disregarding. Money to make and to grow old What about the hands to hold? Deadlines, projects, people to meet What about our own two feet. Sullen faces like slates of grey... What I’d see most anyday.

Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

I know money isn't everything. but it certainly is something.

Some people only dream of success… while others wake up and use Cosmic Ordering.

If you really want to be happy, don't just go for the money. Go for the relationship that lasts. Go for things of greater value.

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.

Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.

She doesn't need your money. Even a penniless fool like you can make her fall in love with you. That's just miracle.

Without enthusiasm then what we have surrounded ourselves with becomes worthless.

Many people are so poor that the only thing they have is money. Cultivate your spiritual growth.