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50 Quotes That Prove There Is More To Life Than Money And More To Happiness Than Some Dollar Amount

All the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. 
Holly Riordan
September 21, 2016
“Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.”
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind
Tagged: Money, Passion, Career, Work
“It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.”
— Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
Tagged: Money, Attention, Positivity
“Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”
— Voltaire, The Money Queen's Guide: For Women Who Want to Build Wealth and Banish Fear
Tagged: Money, Confusion, Perspective
“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
— Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
Tagged: Money, poor, broken, Mind
“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! I have as much soul as you.”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Tagged: Money, poor, Heartless, heart
“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
— Immanuel Kant, Your Living Compass: Living Well in Thought, Word, and Deed
Tagged: Money, rich, poor, Materialism
“If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.”
— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Tagged: Money, poor, helpful
“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”
— Mother Teresa, The Rotarian
Tagged: Money, Love, Poverty, Hunger
“Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.”
— Christopher Rice, 7 Time Management Essentials
Tagged: Money, bank account, rich, poor, Time
“There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.”
— Sophocles, The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone
Tagged: Money, demoralizing, destructive
“Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.”
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Tagged: Money, Equality, Worth, paycheck, Career
“You'd be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn't do for love.”
— Rachel Caine, Bite Club: The Morganville Vampires
Tagged: Money, Love, Sacrifice
“The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”
— Napoleon Hill, Punchline
Tagged: Money, Career, paycheck
“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”
— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
Tagged: Money, poor, rich
“You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life, when your thinking is in harmony, and no longer in conflict, with your feelings.”
— Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!
Tagged: Money, Security, Love, Freedom, Feelings
“Money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.”
— Nora Roberts, Tribute
Tagged: Money, Happiness, sayings
“Money often costs too much.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life
Tagged: Money, cost, Sacrifice
“Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.”
— Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Tagged: Money, physical, financial
“If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead.”
— Jess C. Scott, Rockstar
Tagged: Money, God, devil, worship
“The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Tagged: Money, Respect, dishonest
“America does not know the difference between money and sex. It treats sex like money because it treats sex as a medium of exchange, and it treats money like sex because it expects its money to get pregnant and reproduce.”
— Peter Kreeft, How to Win the Culture War: A Christian Battle Plan for a Society in Crisis
Tagged: Money, America, Sex
“That money talks, I'll not deny. I heard it once: It said, goodbye.”
— Richard Armour, 40% Off Is the New Black: Reasons Why Less Is More
Tagged: Money, broke, poor
“For I consider brains far superior to money in every way. You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to his advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days.”
— L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz Collection: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Marvellous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, The Road to Oz, The Emerald City of Oz, Patchwork Girl of Oz and More
Tagged: Money, Brains, comfortable
“Success comes in a lot of ways, but it doesn't come with money and it doesn't come with fame. It comes from having a meaning in your life, doing what you love and being passionate about what you do. That's having a life of success. When you have the ability to do what you love, love what you do and have the ability to impact people. That's having a life of success. That's what having a life of meaning is.”
— Tim Tebow, Great Thought On Success
Tagged: Money, Success, Passion, Fame
“Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.”
— Bob Marley, The Boy Who Wanted Sex, Fame, Money, Power And Drugs
Tagged: Money, Numbers, Happiness
“Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”
— Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D, Vol. 3 of 12: With an Essay on His Life and Genius (Classic Reprint)
Tagged: Money, kindness, Business
“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Confessions (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Money, noble, kindness
“People were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institution in the country did not help them widen their economic base.”
— Muhammad Yunus, Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Tagged: Money, poor, stupidity, laziness
“Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.”
— Jess C. Scott, The Other Side of Life (Book #1 / Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy)
Tagged: Money, Materialism, Technology, humanity
“Money is only a human invention.”
— Vanna Bonta, Degrees: Thought Capsules
Tagged: Money, human, invention