Rich But Not Happy Quotes

#1. The richest people in the world aren't particularly smart or happy. And the happiest people in the world aren't particularly smart or rich. ... That leaves me making music. But we can't talk about that.

Frank Zappa

#2. Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

Bono

#3. Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable.

Maeve Binchy

#4. Maybe that was why I wanted to slap so many of the zombies; they had no idea how freaking lucky they were. Lucky and ignorant, happy little rich kids who believed in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy and thought that life was supposed to be fair.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#5. As a child, as far as I was concerned, my dad had an amazing job, and we had all the money we needed. My life was so fun and carefree that I didn't realize at all that we weren't rich - until I met someone rich. Still, I've never met a rich kid who grew up as happy as I did.

Artie Lange

#6. Meanwhile, life passes on and time runs out. The culture of wanting more simply for the sake of more can occupy a person for an entire lifetime. But in the end, life is over. It terminates for the beggar and the affluent just the same, whether one is old or young, rich or poor, happy or sad.

Hamza Yusuf

#7. Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content.

Madame De Stael

#8. Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don't recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Robert Baden-Powell

#9. In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,' and they abandon their values.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#10. I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

Brigitte Bardot

#11. The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

George Bernard Shaw

#12. It is better to be rich, happy and healthy, rather than poor, miserable and sick!

Samson Soledad

#13. I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

Dan Savage

#14. Unhappy poor people at least have the fantasy that money will make them happy; unhappy rich people don't even have that.

Dennis Prager

#15. It's not about being liberal or conservative, it's about being human.
It's not about being rich or poor, it's about being alive and happy.
It's not about being right, it's about being considerate and compassionate.

Karen L. Syed

#16. Not to be rich, not to be famous, not to be mighty, not even to be happy, but to be civilized--that was the dream of his life.

Philip Roth

#17. I get angry when someone calls me only rich.. I am happy with my social personality and my generosity.

Sakip Sabanci

#18. In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me.

Gertrude Lawrence

#19. It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.

Masha Gessen

#20. He was a friendly but sad figure. People said of him: 'A rich man who is not proud. A fortunate man who does not look happy.

Victor Hugo

#21. There is an interesting point about the price of success: It must always be paid in full-and in advance. Everyone wants to be successful. Everyone wants to be healthy, happy, thin, and rich. But most people are not willing to pay the price.

Brian Tracy

#22. Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich.

Gillian Flynn

#23. I have known lots of millionaires who were not happy men; they had not got all they wanted and therefore had failed to find success in life. A Singalese proverb says: "He who is happy is rich, but it does not follow that he who is rich is happy." The really rich man is the man who has fewest wants.

Robert Baden-Powell

#24. An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him ... He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.

Solon

#25. I'm not a rich person financially, but I am in mind and soul. I have so much energy and strength, and I can do a lot of things that make me, and I think my fans, quite happy. When everything's gone, music alone shall live on.

Burning Spear

#26. It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. - Edmund Spenser

Anthony Robbins

#27. If you do nothing more in life do what you love. It may not make you rich, but it will always make you happy.

Robin A. Dilks

#28. It dawns on me that most people would probably be happy with my weekend. I just won five million dollars. But one of the strange things about being rich as shit is five million's just not that exciting.

Ella James

#29. I get paid very well and am happy with what I make, but I'm not in the super-rich bracket. I shop in a supermarket like everyone else.

Simon Bird

#30. You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

George Bernard Shaw

#31. It is not the rich man you should properly call happy,
but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods,
to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death,
and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

Horace

#32. Whether we call ourselves communists or capitalists, Hindus or Buddhists, Moslems or Christians, whether we are blind, lame, well or happy, this earth is ours ... not somebody else's ... it is not only the rich man's earth, but our earth ... yours and mine.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#33. I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.

James Ellroy

#34. People who grow rich almost always improve their sex life. More people want to have sex with them. That's just the way human beings work. Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac. Money did not make me happy. But it definitely improved my sex life.

Felix Dennis

#35. I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't know very many of them that are happy.

Carroll Shelby

#36. I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#37. The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#38. If you are not happy while getting rich, chances are that you will not be happy when you do get rich.

Robert Kiyosaki

#39. You are rich when you are happy with what you have.

Debasish Mridha

#40. If beating yourself up worked you'd be rich, thin, and happy. Try loving yourself instead.

Cheryl Richardson

#41. All you have in life is your reputation: you may be very rich, but if you lose your good name, then you'll never be happy. The thought will always lurk at the back of your mind that people don't trust you.

Richard Branson

#42. I'm very happy to say goodbye to the three-button suits. I hate three-button suits. Some people can pull them off, but they're legitimately really, really skinny. Unfortunately, the only people who actually wear them are, like, Mr. Monopoly, and people like that.

Rich Sommer

#43. Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.

Oliver Goldsmith

#44. I thought of America as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody's rich and there's stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it's not untrue.

Kumail Nanjiani

#45. The rich aren't happy so they try and get richer thinking it will make a difference. The poor aren't happy. They try and get rich thinking that will make a difference.

Frederick Lenz

#46. To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be dead; to be happy is to devote oneself; to exist only for oneself is to damn oneself, and to exile oneself to hell.

Eliphas Levi

#47. Rich people are just people," said Mma Ramotswe. "I have not met a rich person yet who isn't just the same as us. Being happy or unhappy has nothing to do with being rich.

Alexander McCall Smith

#48. When you have a toothache, you think that not having a toothache will make you very happy. But when you don't have a toothache, often you are still not happy. If you practice awareness, you suddenly become very rich, very very happy.

Nhat Hanh

#49. Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King himself often looking sad? Was anyone completely happy?

William Steig

#50. If we are so rich, why aren't we happy?

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#51. It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alan Alda

#52. But in the end, financial decisions aren't about getting rich. They're about getting what you want - getting happy.

Carl Richards

#53. I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'

John Paul DeJoria

#54. There is much less envy of the rich by the poor than there is of the happy by the unhappy; by those who believe by those who don?t believe.

Dennis Prager

#55. I give thanks that I am now rich, well and happy and that my financial affairs are in divine order. Every day in every way I am growing richer and richer.

Catherine Ponder

#56. Handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy

Anonymous

#57. Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

Rebecca Ferguson

#58. The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#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. May your life be rich in blessings and poor in misfortunes. May you see your children's children grow up and make you proud. May your fights be short, your laughter loud, and your passion hot. May you live long and die happy.

Ilona Andrews

#61. Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.

Charlotte Bronte

#62. I wandered away on a glorious botanical and geological excursion, which has lasted nearly fifty years and is not yet completed, always happy and free, poor and rich, without thought of a diploma or of making a name, urged on and on through endless, inspiring Godful beauty.

John Muir

#63. I've been poor and neglected, in the middle and cherished, then rich and miserable and back to the middle and now happy. I've lived it all.

Patricia Montandon

#64. I want to be happy. i want to make people happy. i do not need to be rich to do that.

Amanda Palmer