I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.
Douglas AdamsThe sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Lao TzuHe is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
SocratesI can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.
Bill GatesThere must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
Mother TeresaWhen wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
Billy GrahamYou lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.
J. K. RowlingNew knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt VonnegutOne can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
Lao TzuThere are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma GandhiAs a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.
Robert KiyosakiA gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaA man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David ThoreauIt is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mahatma GandhiDo not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard ShawFunny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.
Dolly PartonIf you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
Narendra ModiI always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.
BonoMoney doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerMoney is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.
Robert KiyosakiHe that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin FranklinWe pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
Nelson MandelaDo something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
Albert SchweitzerThere is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Andrew CarnegieIt is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Franklin D. RooseveltI am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.
Hunter S. ThompsonI just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.
John F. KennedyA good name is rather to be chosen than riches.
King SolomonThe world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
Bill GatesBritain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.
Noam ChomskyMany people aren’t rich because they’re liars.
Robert KiyosakiIt is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaTo give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
Baruch SpinozaService to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Muhammad AliWe should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.
Wayne DyerMoney doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.
Keanu ReevesUnfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren’t the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.
Robert KiyosakiThe generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Edgar Allan PoeWho is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
Babe RuthWealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.
Ayrton SennaThe poorest people are the sweetest people.
Denzel WashingtonOf the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
Warren BuffettThe great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.
Christopher HitchensSpeak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
ConfuciusThere is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaPity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Mother TeresaI mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.
Barack ObamaWe need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.
Barack ObamaIt is better to live rich than to die rich.
Samuel JohnsonMoney doesn’t talk, it swears.
Bob DylanSince the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.
Audrey HepburnI grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘
Wayne DyerWhen a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.
George Bernard ShawI was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
Audrey HepburnYou have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
Albert CamusThere is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
Oscar WildeThe highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.
Jordan PetersonLearning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
Jim Rohn