72 Money & Happiness: What Do The Experts Say?

We’ve all asked ourselves the question: Does having more money truly lead to happiness? Philosophers, successful individuals, and everyday people have debated this topic for ages. In this post, we’ll explore the complex relationship between money and happiness through a collection of thought-provoking quotes. Let these words of wisdom guide you on your journey to financial wellness and personal fulfillment.

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Quotes About Money and Happiness

Famous Quotes:

  • “Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.” – Benjamin Franklin
  • “It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it is good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure thatyou haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.” – George Lorimer
  • “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Witty and Insightful Quotes:

  • “Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.” – Kinky Friedman
  • “Money often costs too much.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.” – Jonathan Swift

Thought-Provoking Quotes:

  • “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” – Epictetus
  • “The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.” – Anonymous
  • “It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.” – Robert Kiyosaki


quotes about money and happiness

On the Pursuit of Money:

  • “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” – Will Rogers
  • “Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” – Norman Vincent Peale
  • “Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are.” – James W. Frick

On Money and Contentment:

  • “That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.” – Henry David Thoreau
  • “Enough is a feast.” – Buddhist proverb
  • “It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” – Seneca

On Balancing Money and Life:

  • “Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.” – Benjamin Franklin
  • “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” – Jim Rohn
  • “Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” – Henry David Thoreau


On the Limitations of Money:

  • “Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer.” – Groucho Marx
  • “Money can’t buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.” – Spike Milligan
  • “You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.” – Maya Angelou

On Money and Perspective:

  • “If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can’t buy.” – Unknown
  • “It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.” – Kin Hubbard
  • “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill

On Money and True Value:

  • “The things you own end up owning you.” – Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)
  • “Some people are so poor, all they have is money.” – Unknown
  • “Don’t stay in bed unless you can make money in bed.” – George Burns

 

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On Experiences vs. Possessions:

  • “Collect moments, not things.” – Unknown
  • “The best things in life aren’t things.” – Art Buchwald
  • “An investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten

On Gratitude and Money:

  • “It’s not having what you want. It’s wanting what you’ve got.” – Sheryl Crow
  • “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” – Socrates
  • “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” – Willie Nelson

A Touch of Humor:

  • “Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.” – Bill Vaughan
  • “If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.” – Earl Wilson
  • “I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.” – Henny Youngman

 

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Money as a Tool:

  • “Money is a good servant but a bad master.” – French Proverb
  • “Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.” – W. Somerset Maugham
  • “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” – Ayn Rand

Finding Happiness Beyond Money:

  • “The greatest wealth is to live content withlittle.” – Plato
  • “Happiness is a warm puppy.” – Charles M. Schulz (emphasizing simple joys)
  • “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” – Charles Spurgeon

Money and Personal Responsibility:

  • “Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.” – Ayn Rand
  • “Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.” – Voltaire
  • “Financial peace isn’t the acquisition of stuff. It’s learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can’t win until you do this.” – Dave Ramsey

On Seeking Balance:

  • “It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.” – George Lorimer
  • “Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around encouraging young things to grow.” – Thornton Wilder
  • “The lack of money is the root of all evil.” – George Bernard Shaw (This quote can spark debate on whether financial hardship leads to negative choices)

On Not Letting Money Control You:

  • “Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life.” – John Wooden
  • “Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.“ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • “Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.” – Aesop (A cautionary tale applicable to money)

On Finding Purpose Beyond Money:

  • “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
  • “It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”- Bruce Lee

Challenging Perspectives:

  • “Money can buy you medicine, but it cannot buy you health.” – Proverb
  • “The only difference between a rich man and a poor man is what they do with their time.” – Robert Kiyosaki
  • “There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.” – General Douglas MacArthur (Indirectly suggests seeking opportunity over the illusion of financial security)

Focus on Inner Wealth:

  • “If you make yourself more valuable in the marketplace, you’ll attract more valuable opportunities. ” – Jim Rohn (Encourages developing skills/self-worth)
  • “I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.” – George Burns
  • “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” – Socrates

With a Touch of Humor:

  • “I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor; believe me, rich is better.” – Joe E. Lewis
  • “The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.” – Erma Bombeck
  • “A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.” – Bob Hope

 

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On Money and Freedom:

  • “Money buys freedom from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.” – Groucho Marx
  • “Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.” – Robert Kiyosaki
  • “It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.” – David Feherty (Indirect reference to how money gives the freedom to try, fail, and try again)

On Money and Opportunity:

  • “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
  • “The real purpose of wealth…is to give one freedom of time and place.” – Ayn Rand (The ability to choose how to spend your time)
  • “Wealth is largely the result of habit.” – John Jacob Astor

And a bit of humor mixed in:

  • “With enough money, even a bad person can get into heaven.” – Unknown
  • “Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves.” – Zig Ziglar
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