Money Isn't Everything Quotes
This section is exactly the opposite. Many of the money quotes below view the unchecked acquisition of money in a bad light.
They point out how money does not mean as much as the arbitrary value that many people place on it. They show the shortcomings of money and how little money matters in the grand scheme of things.
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
— Coco Chanel
“If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.”
— Earl Wilson
“The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it.”
George Samuel Clason
American author
“A treasure is to be valued for its own sake and not for what it will buy.”
— Graham Greene
“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“I don’t want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.”
— Marilyn Monroe
“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.”
Jonathan Swift
Essayist
“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.”
— Maya Angelou
“The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.”
— Phillip Fisher
“Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.”
— Richard M. DeVos
“Not having money to spend doesn’t mean we can’t have well-spent moments every day.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Author
“The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
— Winston Churchill
Quotes About Money and Greed
Finally we come to the crowd of opinions that revolve around a truly negative view of money. Ow the lack of money can disadvantage any, while the unbridled quest for money can cause people to lose focus of the things that matter.
And even cause them to lose focus on their money.
Let’s get to these money quotes and see a bit of the dark side of earning money.
“Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.”
— D.H. Lawrence
“You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.”
— Dave Ramsey
“This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.”
— Earl Wilson
“Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian civil rights leader
“Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.”— Henry Fielding
“It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.”— Margaret Thatcher
“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”— Norman Vincent Peale
“Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.”
P. T. Barnum
American politician
“No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.”
— Plato
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
— Seneca
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