Top 100 Can't Be Bought Quotes
#1. The most valuable things in life can't be bought with money.
Phillipe Nover
#2. Loyalty must be forged - to him, to his: stronger than iron, from experience, from risk - it can't be bought, or taught, or promised before the fact. Allegiance must be earned so it will hold, win or lose.
Janet Morris
#3. Love shouldn't make a beggar of one. I wouldn't want love if I had to beg for it, to barter or qualify it. And I should despise it if anyone ever begged for my love. Love is something that must be given
it can't be bought with words or pity, or even reason.
Jacqueline Susann
#4. Humility can't be bought at a bargain price. It's the long working of grace upon grace within the hurts of our hearts.
Lysa TerKeurst
#5. Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.
Alafair Burke
#6. Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.There are men who can't be bought.
Carl Sandburg
#7. The stuff that?s most important to me in life can?t be bought ? it can only be earned.
Steve Pavlina
#8. It's tough to say no to peace, to the comfort of it. All through history, people have traded wealth, children, land, and lives to buy it.
But peace can't be bought, can it, chief, prime minister? The only ones offering to sell it always want something more. They lie.
Jim Butcher
#10. I can't be bought with money. If someone calls me and asks me to work for them for three or four years, and they'll pay me well to build their vacation home, I ask myself why I should work three or four years on something like that.
Peter Zumthor
#11. There are some favors that can't be bought, and some kindnesses that should only be given freely.
Julianne Donaldson
#13. Beauty isn't skin-deep. It's bone-deep. Heart-deep. Soul-deep. Only put to sleep. When we prick our finger on fear. Beauty can't be bought or made. It can only be awoken through laughter, and living, and love. Through being you and being true.
Siobhan Curham
#14. I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.
Zac Goldsmith
#15. Two things can't be bought. Great health and love.
Maria Dorfner
#16. If you are determined to succeed - just remember - success is sealed in a can, it can't be bought, but it must be in your thought, for if you can - you can.
Ency Bearis
#17. I have no need for riches, Highness. I can't be bought either.
Anthony Ryan
#18. I have great faith in the people of Montana; they can't be bought.
Jon Tester
#19. Buy what you love. Love those who can't be bought. Take in all the day has to offer. Give it all away.
Jodi Hills
#20. Imagine if one of them were turned. Imagine if one could be bought.'
'But they're chosen just so's they can't be bought ... '
'History ... ' Jacobs spoke with terse authority. Brought Ori to a hush. 'Is all full. And dripping. With the corpses. Of them who trusted the incorruptible.
China Mieville
#21. You're blessed when you're content with just who you are - no more, no less. That's the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can't be bought.
Anonymous
#22. Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.
Seneca The Younger
#23. Anybody who knows me knows my vote can't be bought.
Judy Davis
#24. A godly woman's true adornment can't be bought at a department store or acquired in the beauty shop.
Tony Evans
#25. Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.
Stevie Wonder
#28. Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
Michael Caine
#29. Loyalty and dedication can't be bought or paid to go away.
Zelda La Grange
#30. It came without ribbions, It cames without tags, It came without packages, boxes, or bags. Christmas can't be bought from a store. Maybe Christmas means a little bit more ...
Dr. Seuss
#31. American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World
Adam Gopnik
#32. Vintage rock T-shirts are the best. I have about 50 or 60, most bought on eBay for a few pounds. You can always tell which ones are genuine because there'll be lots of pictures showing you the holes.
Jessica Hart
#33. A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.
Stephen King
#34. Despite everything my mom and doctor and dad have said to me about blame, I can't stop thinking what I know. And I know that my aunt Helen would still be alive today if she just bought me one present like everybody else. She would be alive if I were born on a day that didn't snow.
Stephen Chbosky
#35. I don't get my tees at a mall, Tess. No decent tee can be bought at a fuckin' mall. A good tee is bought during an experience.
Kristen Ashley
#36. Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.
Jerry Pournelle
#37. if anyone believe love can be buy at Magic Shops.
That person can not respect your love never because for that person love is not miracle.But only a thing which can be Bought Direct or indirect ,seduce by Body or Bought from Conjurer
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#38. If you believe that happiness can be bought, then why don't you try selling some of yours?
Ernie J Zelinski
#39. I even pulled out the can of cat treats. Yes, I'd bought him treats. Give it another month and I'd be collecting his shed whiskers and claws like a proud momma preserving her baby's first haircut and lost teeth.
Kelley Armstrong
#41. Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances.
Andrew Stanton
#42. A product is something made in a factory; a brand is something that is bought by the customer. A product can be copied by a competitor; a brand is unique. A product can be quickly outdated; a successful brand is timeless.
Stephen King
#43. Greedy can be bought, timid can be frightened, smart can be persuaded, but the zealots are immune to money, fear, or reason
Ilona Andrews
#44. Beautiful colours can be bought in the shops on the Riatlo, but good drawing can only be bought from the casket of the artist's talent with patient study and nights with out sleep.
Tintoretto
#45. Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf,
And can be bought with nothing but with self.
Walter Raleigh
#46. But it is not everything in life that has its ticket, so much. There are things that are not for sale.
Agatha Christie
#47. In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses ... human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#48. You only have one life to live. How you live that life is your choice. As far as I know, no one has ever had 'I wish I had bought more stuff' inscribed on their tombstone. What you own can easily blind you to who you are and what you can be.
Peter Walsh
#50. I got nothing against the honest cop on the beat. You just have them transferred someplace where they can't do you any harm. But don't ever talk to me about the honor of police captains or judges. If they couldn't be bought they wouldn't have the job.
Al Capone
#51. I used to read those bits about finding your other half, and I totally bought into it. But that's not the way it works. Two half people don't make a whole. You've got to be completely whole on your own before you can be one half of anything.
Rachel Hollis
#52. Nowhere does it say free speech is carte blanche to be a jerk. And don't cheapen real free speech by hijacking an honourable concept bought dearly with people's lives just to get a little spotlight. Spotlights run hot, and they can burn.
Karen Traviss
#53. There is an attitude that we should be able to have everything. No, you shouldn't be able to have anything. I'd like a helicopter, but I can't afford a helicopter, so I don't buy one. People are buying stuff they can't afford on credit. I bought my Ford hybrid with cash.
Grace Slick
#54. Here [in the USA], you have the best laws for freedom of expression. The problem is that expression can be bought by people who don't want you have it. Apparently, true patriotism destroys freedom of expression.
Marjane Satrapi
#55. I have really good female friends. I've never bought the whole men-and-women-can't-be-friends thing. I think that's sort of nonsense.
Josh Radnor
#56. These poor, rich men who, seeing that you can't be caught, attempt to buy a thing they know cannot be bought.
Patrick Rothfuss
#57. Now, in the space of a year, we've spent 450 percent more for power than we did the year before, and bought essentially the same amount of power. This year, that number's likely to go up. That can't go on forever and have us continue to be the economic engine for America.
Gray Davis
#58. The only things you can ever truly own cannot be bought with money.
James Carlos Blake
#59. I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that - except I couldn't afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.
David Bowie
#60. Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.
Tim Ferriss
#61. That which is essential for life, can never be bought.
Debasish Mridha
#62. For enslaving a nation, just kill the conscientious people, the rest can be bought.
M.F. Moonzajer
#63. Things that matter in this life can not be bought. Friends, truth, and a passion for life.
Chris Shays
#64. Can you be bought?" Pilar demanded.
Maddy slid into the booth, grinned. "Sure."
"Let's negotiate." Pilar sat down beside her.
Nora Roberts
#65. The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses ...
Agnes Repplier
#66. I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance,
Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance
You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.
Saul Williams
#67. Strong is right?"
"Well, yes, I suppose you could say that."
"You say a woman cannot be bought. I say she can. I am strong. I am right.
Catherine Anderson
#68. It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.
Timothy Noah
#69. Neither instinct nor style ..can be bought or taught.
Robert Evans
#70. Happiness cannot be bought by money,
cannot be acquired by degrees,
cannot be realized by power,
and cannot be earned by honor;
but can be won by kindness,
gained by charity,
attained by goodness,
and achieved by love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#71. Had an absolutely fabulous night.Highly recommended although you can't be bashful! Considering what I've paid for treatments before, this was three hours of pure bliss, relaxation and a bit of extreme therapy at a fantastic price. I bought the gold package.
Sona
#72. It's simply a question of finding the right incentive. Pauper or prince, every man can be bought
Leigh Bardugo
#73. And loyalty is a valued commodity. It can be sold ... not bought, but sold.
Frank Herbert
#74. This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.
Ian Rankin
#76. Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance
Cullen Hightower
#78. It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by the intelligent layman. I want everyone who bought a copy of 'A Brief History of Time' to buy a copy of 'Genome'.
Matt Ridley
#79. [T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore ... never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold at market.
Thomas Jefferson
#80. I can be bought. If they paid me enough, I'd work for the Klan.
Charles Barkley
#81. The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect. There is a soul in each one of us. I know it.
Oscar Wilde
#82. The "public" seems to have bought into this belief that life can, and should, be run without risk, that all accidents are avoidable, and that death is something that only happens to people who eat meat and smoke.
Jeremy Clarkson
#83. With love everything is bought, everything is saved. If even I, a sinful man, just like you, was moved to tenderness and felt pity for you, how much more will God be. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#84. Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#85. The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
Adam Savage
#86. Happiness can be thought, taught and caught ... but not bought.
Harvey MacKay
#87. I see love as a force of nature. No matter how much you want to, you cannot control or demand love. No one can. It cannot be bought, bartered, or sold. It is priceless.
Anna Agoncillo
#88. I want to know: How does a space suit on Mars work? Show me how it is pressurized, and how it is cooled. What's the glove design? None of that stuff can be bought off the rack. It does not exist. You can't just go to SpaceMart and buy those things.
Chris Hadfield
#89. Fidelity is what cannot be bought or sold. It obeys a law and attaches itself to a necessity. Convenience can be calculated, but fides can only be established by the spontaneous act of a man who is capable of inner nobility. Fides means personality and hierarchy.
Julius Evola
#90. Art cannot be bought or sold. It can only be created or destroyed.
Iimani David
#91. Thus painting itself had to be able to demonstrate the desirability of what money could buy. And the visual desirability of what can be bought lies in its tangibility, in how it will reward the touch, the hand, of the owner.
John Berger
#92. The media, like anything else, can be bought. Everything, it seems, has its price. Even the free press.
Lance Morcan
#93. Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it.
Hermann Hesse
#94. The things that matter most in this world are those that carry no price tag, for they can neither be bought nor sold at any price.
Suze Orman
#95. Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God's blessing, or human qualitity. This is the essence of mankind.
Dalai Lama
#96. When I was young, I used to hear people say, 'He's a golden boy. Look at that guy. Can you imagine what he's going to be like when he grows up?' Well, I unfortunately bought into that. And I hadn't even found myself. Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.
Glenn Beck
#97. My love can be easily bought with a steak from Peter Luger's.
Jami Attenberg
#98. Happiness isn't reserved for privileged individuals. It is a state of mind that can neither be bought nor stolen nor traded; it is a liberty available to anyone.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#99. Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or fame. It is the ultimate test of our character. It requires climbing out of the deep valleys of our lives and scaling our own Mount Everests.
James E. Faust
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