Quotes About Wealth

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.

It's an odd thing, happiness. Some people take happiness from gold. Or black pearls. And some of us, far more fortunate, take their happiness from periwinkles.

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.

Contentment is natural wealth.

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

I have observed 100,000 families over my years of investment counseling. I always saw greater prosperity and happiness among those families who tithed than among those who didn't.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you'll be.

Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.

No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.

I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty under almost all economic conditions.

Happiness is not made by what we own. It is what we share.

Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.

Americans consume three quarters of the world's anti-depressants because materialism will never bring happiness.

Money alone can't bring you happiness, but money alone has not brought me unhappiness. I won't say my previous husbands thought only of my money, but it had a certain fascination for them.

A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.