The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.
Pope FrancisMy principles are more important than the money or my title.
Muhammad AliMay we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. EisenhowerWe learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.
Michelle ObamaIt could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.
Conor McGregorTo thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William ShakespeareBetter understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
Jim RohnThere’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don’t like doing what people expect me to do.
Dave GrohlIf I’m gonna tell a real story, I’m gonna start with my name.
Kendrick LamarI can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.
Nelson MandelaWhat’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob DylanI just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There’s no tricks. It’s honesty with big melodies.
Bruno MarsYou don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
John LennonI don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.
RihannaPeople who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
George CarlinThere’s no point in saying anything but the truth.
Amy WinehouseThe chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H. L. MenckenPower is not alluring to pure minds.
Thomas JeffersonA faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.
Russell M. NelsonWhen I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.
Jackie ChanI’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.
Jim MattisYou know, I just do whatever feels right to me! And so that’s what you’re gonna get!
Bruno MarsI’m different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I’ve built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image… My image is real… I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.
Vivienne WestwoodI don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.
Joel OsteenIn today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.
Kanye WestRiches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Francis BaconI’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.
Joel OsteenMoney is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.
Ayrton SennaI think country music is popular – has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it’s simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.
Dolly PartonI refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‚one size fits all‘ standard for happiness.
Kanye WestThere is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.
Terry PratchettIf we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius CiceroFew men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George WashingtonI do not pilfer victory.
Alexander the GreatI live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.
Lady GagaI’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.
Terry PratchettVirtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
William ShakespeareUse what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThose have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.
Benjamin FranklinCompromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.
Gilbert K. ChestertonNo money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Samuel JohnsonI don’t mind telling a dark side.
Clint EastwoodThere are people who have money and people who are rich.
Coco ChanelWithin one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.
Margaret AtwoodMy wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.
Matthew McConaugheyIf cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
Jack LondonWhatever I am, it’s natural… I don’t have to pretend to be aggressive, don’t have to show the opposition that I am on the field. Being aggressive comes naturally to me, helps me perform.
Virat KohliSeek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel KantThe minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.
Gordon RamsayIt is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Samuel JohnsonIt is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Albert CamusIn matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas JeffersonI never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
Marcus Tullius CiceroQuality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry FordToday you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
Dr. SeussWhen a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.
George Bernard ShawAn unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
Aldous HuxleyYou make more money if you’re generous.
Robert KiyosakiI hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.
Lady Gaga