Top 100 Money Not Happiness Quotes
#2. You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.
Sergey Brin
#3. Where there is less pain, there is also less pay.
Auliq Ice
#4. Money might not be able to buy happiness, but it made misery more bearable.
Ava Gray
#5. There's many ways to be wealthy, and there's many wealthy people that are very poor. Success is not about money, it's happiness, inner peace, and loving yourself. Happiness and inner peace can come from your faith in God, and loving yourself is part of His plan.
Ron Baratono
#6. When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#7. It's easy to get sidetracked with thoughts that involve much money and precious things, but before you launch into that mode, reason well.
Auliq Ice
#8. I think money helps us. It helps us. It's our - it's our exchange system. But it does not buy you happiness. It doesn't buy you health.
Victoria Osteen
#9. I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either.
Damien Rice
#10. Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.
Robertson Davies
#11. The consumer society, directed at making us happy, achieves the opposite. It encourages us to spend money we do not have, to buy things we do not need, for the sake of a happiness that will not last.
Jonathan Sacks
#12. My happiness today is simply the result of my own thinking. Happiness starts with me not with my relationships, not with my job, not with my money, but with me.
Latorria Freeman
#13. I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
#14. A person can be miserable in a mansion and happy in a shack."
"Money will not buy happiness. It's merly the lack of it that can cause much of our misery.
Leon Forte
#15. It is not the fame, not the flesh, not the money. We want something else, something pretty.
Debasish Mridha
#16. Money might not buy happiness, I reflected, but it was a useful commodity, nonetheless.
Diana Gabaldon
#17. It is not important how much money you gave away. It is important what good it will do on the way.
Debasish Mridha
#18. You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life.
Paul Samuelson
#19. I was convinced that the proverb about money not buying happiness was written by a rich guy who didn't want you to feel bad because you didn't have any.
Donald Jans
#20. Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that's a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful.
Sam Altman
#22. We buy things, not with money, but with our precious life we call time.
Debasish Mridha
#23. Money may be a good servant, but for sure it is a bad master
Corrado Ghinamo
#24. I just really thought about it and decided I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all. And I think it's really madness to risk your body, risk your well-being and risk your happiness for money.
John Moffitt
#25. Happiness is a necessity. It's not a thing money can buy but a feeling that comes from within.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#26. ... I charged most of our fun on Daddy's credit card. Not like he would notice or care. And if he did, he'd always said that if money didn't buy happiness, then people were spending it wrong.
Cora Carmack
#27. Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.
Ayn Rand
#28. I learned that money's not happiness. The more famous I am and the more money I make, the closer I stay to my family and friends that I've known since junior high school. True happiness to me is the connection with fellow human beings I've known for a long time.
Dat Phan
#29. The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness
Dalai Lama XIV
#30. It is true money will not buy you real happiness, but as a personal preference I would much rather have an angry strangle wank in the comfort of a private jet en route to Monte Carlo, than in a broom closet in the basement of a seedy crack house in Bangkok
Ade Bozzay
#31. Money may not buy happiness, but it allows you to shop in better places for it.
Christopher Pike
#32. Wealth is all misery and sickness to the brain, try not to put yourself deep in it, it shall erase your humanity feelings.
Auliq Ice
#33. They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them. That, besides companionship, was their reward. Her air and sky were theirs, not the timorous millions' who own stuffy little boxes, but never their own souls.
E. M. Forster
#34. Just make as much money as you can, but try your best not to rob or get robbed, it will sweep all that you have and leave your hands empty.
Auliq Ice
#35. The mighty are beggars, child. They rattle silver cups by the roadside, pleading for love.
Robert V.S. Redick
#36. Money removes many stressors, but it has not changed my level of happiness, nor who I am. It changes how I spend my time. Right
Megyn Kelly
#37. Money can't buy everything." "Someone must have told you that. You'd never think of such a platitude all by yourself. What can't it buy?" "Oh, well, I don't know - not happiness or love, anyway." "Generally it can. And when it can't, it can buy some of the most remarkable substitutes.
Margaret Mitchell
#38. He thinks of making his fortune. We all know that money sticks to yours hands.
No, It passes through them, alas.
Hilary Mantel
#40. Of course money buys happiness. You ever seen a homeless person skip? The answer to that riddle's no. They're not allowed.
Daniel Tosh
#41. She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end - that riches, rightly used, are instruments of happiness, but are not in themselves happiness.
Thomas Love Peacock
#42. But truly it was not the money that mattered. It was the distant glitter of everything that was possible in the world, the things she had always wanted for herself and could not name and called happiness because there was no other word.
Tim O'Brien
#43. What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give, and frowns can take; and not worth the owning which a night's fire can melt, or a rough sea can drown.
Francis Quarles
#44. Having money might not buy happiness, but how you spend it could actually make a difference.
Ian K. Smith
#45. I had looked for happiness in fast living, but it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not there either.
Edward Young
#46. If money could buy us happiness then some of the richest people on earth would be more than one million times more happier!
Avijeet Das
#47. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to LIVE.
George Mallory
#48. She doesn't need your money. Even a penniless fool like you can make her fall in love with you. That's just miracle.
Vann Chow
#49. Money is just a piece of paper for me, it always brings trouble with it and too much of money will make you mad for it
Vignesh S.V
#50. Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of happiness.
Steve Scott
#51. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
Paulo Coelho
#52. What life really is all about is happiness. It's not money, or stature, or the amount of cars you have in your driveway. Life, a really successful life, is one in which you are loved and love somebody else, or some other people.
Steve Guttenberg
#53. Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.
Daniel Kahneman
#54. Wealth is not a sign of dignity, dear Jonah. Only those who put faith above wealth are worthy of this honour. Abandon wealth and devote yourself to serving the cause of faith, and you will deserve eternal bliss.
Viktor Shel
#55. A man is rich not only by what he has, but also, and above all, by what he doesn't.
Neel Burton
#56. Money is an important tool for modern life. Money will not make you happy, but you can use money wisely to enhance your happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#57. Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,
service is the secret.
Kathleen Norris
#58. Money - like health, love, happiness, and all forms of success that you want to create for yourself - is the result of living purposefully. It is not a goal unto itself.
Wayne Dyer
#59. I'm not rich as Bill Gates neither I'm famous as Tom Cruise, But trust me I am happier than all of them.
Rishabh Surya
#60. Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short ... was she happy? Not for a moment.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#61. Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money.
Groucho Marx
#62. The currency of a happy life is not money, but it is pure love.
Debasish Mridha
#63. Money can purchase the symbols but not the causes of serenity and buoyancy. In a straightforward way we must agree that money cannot buy happiness.
John Armstrong
#64. If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
Epicurus
#65. One can acquire money, fame and distinction, but one cannot create happiness or unhappiness, not for oneself or for others. One can only accept what comes, although one can, to be sure, accept it in entirely different ways.
Hermann Hesse
#66. As Sancho said, money does not buy happiness but it does buy nearly everything else.
Isabel Allende
#67. Many of us live that life where we are only happy when there's a good day passing by, instead of being sad when there's one bad day passing leaving us confused.
Auliq Ice
#68. Money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind, it can take your mind off things, distract you, but it can't replace the generic stuff a person needs!
Terry McMillan
#69. Money is not the cure for misery but changing our perception is.
Debasish Mridha
#70. Money can make life comfortable, solve some problems and bring temporary satisfaction, but true happiness and joy is not guaranteed by money.
Sunday Adelaja
#71. There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
Fiona Shaw
#72. Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money.
Marty Rubin
#73. There Bomar is, wherever he is, spending a fortune every day on liquor and beautiful women and expensive playthings, when he could find peace of mind right here with us, for a mere twenty cents.
Bomar
Kurt Vonnegut
#74. Sometimes it's not about making a ton of money in one night, just to spend the rest of your life waiting on the next payday. You will fare better investing time, planning, strategic thinking in order to secure a stable, fruitful future.
Carlos Wallace
#75. Happiness in a family really revolves around how much money I have in my disposal.
Vann Chow
#76. People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#77. Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places.
W.C. Fields
#78. Not money, but love, is life's treasure. Spend it, invest it; the returns will be without measure.
Debasish Mridha
#79. that the truly contented man is not the possessor of vast riches. The crown of happiness goes to the person who has the skill to gain money fairly, use it honorably, and not mistake gold for a god of power and light.
Xenophon
#80. Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
Democritus
#81. Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.
Anton Chekhov
#82. Spend your money for education; it will pay you the best dividend. No one will be able to steal is and you will not lose it for a second.
Debasish Mridha
#83. Appreciation empowers not just money transactions, but all interactions. Gratitude is one of the greatest meditations of a lifetime, the fastest attitude uplifter I know. Be grateful for all the good in your life and your good will only increase, along with your happiness.
Alan Cohen
#84. Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#85. You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.
Philip Kaufman
#86. Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Epictetus
#87. Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#88. I am not fond of Money but what i have to do in order to get it, i am fond of what i get in exchange for it's worth rather than money itself.
Sachin Kumar Puli
#89. Keep in mind that you don't need to be addicted to money in order to acquire it. You can prefer to have money; you will then be able to enjoy whatever money you receive, but your happiness will not be contingent on the size of your bank account.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#90. Door money. It's a distraction. It impedes judgment. It blurs focus. Chasing the almighty dollar can become the root of all evil, the bane of one's existence.
Carlos Wallace
#92. Life is not measured by the money we earn but by the love that we give away.
Debasish Mridha
#93. Happiness is the number one thing we should strive to have in life. Not money. Not houses or expensive cars. Happiness is true wealth." I
Micalea Smeltzer
#94. With pure nature, money isn't necessary but meaningful to every one, including me, but i don't make it a principle rule because I can live without it.
Auliq Ice
#95. I sing of happiness, he says, and insecurity shows through
poisons it. I sing of unhappiness, and it spoils that, too, because my real unhappiness isn't great or noble but cheap
money unhappiness.
$10,000 a Year, Easy
Kurt Vonnegut
#96. Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
Freddie Mercury
#97. People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
Joan Rivers
#98. I measure my success by how happy I am, not how big the business is or how much money I've made.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#99. Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.
Francoise Sagan
#100. Can the mere convenience that makes money such a useful device continue indefinitely to outweigh the horrendous and growing burden of evil that it imposes on the human race and ultimately brings its dependents to ruin?
Hugh Nibley
