Quotes About Living Above Your Means

#1. Living above your means is financial sin.

Jesse Jackson Jr.

#2. The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.

Benjamin E. Mays

#3. Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the market. 24 Our cities have become unaffordable to our poorest families, and this problem is leaving a deep and jagged scar on the next generation.

Matthew Desmond

#4. Critics are always complaining about the materialism of hip-hop and accusing the artists of living way above their means. But this ostentatious sort of spending isn't strictly the province of hip-hop. It's almost like a continuation of the American Dream.

Simon De Pury

#5. I started - well, in England it works a little bit differently. You have to do Fringe theatre, which is basically free theatre. You do it in pubs and small theaters and village halls across the country, and you work for a theatre company. You're part of a troupe.

Joshua Sasse

#6. Be interested in everything. You don't have to adore it. I don't adore hip-hop, I don't think it's great music, but I'm interested, I listen. I watch a lot of new films, I see everything. I still read, I like books, whether they are old books, new books. I'm interested - you gotta stay interested!

Mel Brooks

#7. Stop looking for things that could go wrong instead of finding things that will go right." I

Amanda Bouchet

#8. Scott Boras, I've known for a long time. We were both in the Cardinals organization. I'm a lot older than Scott. He's a very tough man, very tough agent.

Joe Torre

#9. To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.

Elsa Triolet

#10. You want to say the thing that will drive everybody in the direction you want to go. But as a writer you have a pact with your readers that you'll be really straight with them at all times.

Michael Pollan

#11. Your dreams will never come true through some kind of magic.
They will become reality only through self confidence, determination, dedication and effort

Mouloud Benzadi

#12. Do not be depressed. Do not let your weakness make you impatient. Instead, let the serenity of your spirit shine through your face. Let the joy of your mind burst forth.

Peter Damian

#13. I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and be sweet to the ones you love. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and truly like the company you keep in the empty moments of your life.

Jon Blais

#14. One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#15. Death is the only limit to the road you travel.

Roger Zelazny

#16. There is no way of truly knowing where a road will lead until it is walked.

R.A. Salvatore

#17. I'm not bored. Can't we stay here, and I'll find something in the minibar to smear all over you?

Sally Thorne

#18. One down, fifteen to go.

Marcus Trescothick

#19. It was a black and white day of frost, which crawled along the dark trees and outlined twig and branch. The air was misty, and distant objects assumed a mysterious importance. Slight sounds, too, suggested infinite activities to the mind.

("A Tribute Of Souls")

Robert S. Hichens