Money holds a unique place in our lives, influencing our choices, mindset, and goals. Whether you're looking to stay motivated on your financial journey or seeking a fresh perspective on wealth and success, the right words can inspire and empower you. We've gathered 39 of the most uplifting and thought-provoking money quotes to encourage you to think differently about your finances and embrace a mindset of abundance and possibility.
1. “Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.” - Ayn Rand
2. “Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.” - Christopher Rice
3. “Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.” - Ian Fleming
4. “Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” - Napoleon Bonaparte
5. “The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.” - Dorothy Parker
6. “Money does not smell of the mire whence it came; it has the glorious scent of what will be.” - Catulle Mendes
7. “The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period.” - Amy Dacyczyn
8. “Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling” - Tony DeLiso
9. “Financial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our love, (are) quite the coldest and the most biting.” - Gustave Flaubert
10. “Knowledge, like money and muck (manure), serves us best when spread evenly.” - Stuart Aken
11. “Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.” - Caryll Houselander
12. “People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest ...But here is the point: If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People. If the currency issued by the People were no good, then the bonds would be no good, either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious value of gold.” - Thomas A. Edison
13. “When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.” - Basil the Great
14. “You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.” - Edgar Allan Poe
15. “Disagreements over money are the biggest cause of divorce."She waved her hand. "Absolutely no problem. Your money is our money. My money is my money." She wrote away."I should make you negotiate with Phoebe.” - Susan Elizabeth Phillips
16. “Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.” - David Lee Roth
17. “Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.” - Lemony Snicket
18. “Adamant," Doren said proudly, handing over the shield. "We fished it out of the tar pit where we found the shirt of mail.""Probably all belonged to the same careless adventurer," Newel speculated. "Too much money, not enough talent.” - Brandon Mull
19. “Using your mind is a faster method to getting what you want. I mean, all you have to do is sit there. What could be easier?” - Stephen Richards
20. “You willed yourself to where you are today, so will yourself out of it.” - Stephen Richards
21. “Winning is great, but if it's not enough then then you'll never have enough!” - Stephen Richards
22. “Have faith in the universe and its capability to lead you to the path of abundance.” - Stephen Richards
23. “Grateful souls focus on the happiness and abundance present in their lives and this in turn attracts more abundance and joy towards them.” - Stephen Richards
24. “In the spiritual world many forms of the physical universe that are potentially effective can be perceived but with regard to time, we can observe only one form.” - Stephen Richards
25. “They spent pork-barrel money like a tidal-wave sea, but no funds trickled down far enough to reach me. Our books numbered few and were falling apart, and I sat mending pages with a crestfallen heart.” - David Davis
26. “Did you find anything special?' Blackie asked.T. nodded. 'Come over here,' he said, 'and look.' Out of both pockets he drew bundles of pound notes. 'Old Misery's savings,' he said. 'Mike ripped out the mattress, but he missed them.' 'What are you going to do? Share them?' 'We aren't thieves,' T. said. 'Nobody's going to steal anything from this house. I kept these for you and me - a celebration.' He knelt down on the floor and counted them out - there were seventy in all. 'We'll burn them,' he said, 'one by one,' and taking it in turns they held a note upwards and lit the top corner, so that the flame burnt slowly towards their fingers. The grey ash floated above them and fell on their heads like age. 'I'd like to see Old Misery's face when we are through,' T. said. 'You hate him a lot?' Blackie asked. 'Of course I don't hate him,' T. said. 'There'd be no fun if I hated him.' The last burning note illuminated his brooding face. 'All this hate and love,' he said, 'it's soft, it's hooey. There's only things, Blackie,' and he looked round the room crowded with the unfamiliar shadows of half things, broken things, former things. 'I'll race you home, Blackie,' he said. ("The Destructors")” - Graham Greene
27. “Manifesting your desires requires an understanding of the universe’s abundance and inherently giving nature. If you ask from a position of fear or desperation, you are sending out your fear and desperation, and the universe, giving, reflecting, and non-judgmental as it is, will send those right back at you.” - Stephen Richards
28. “In the fashion industry, everything goes retro except the prices.” - Criss Jami
29. “Where had he been? Drinking, obviously. Then she started cataloging all the ways he was worthless. On fool impulse, as his most potent available argument against Lily, Bud stuck his hands into his coat pockets and pulled out the many bundles of hundreds and threw them on the bedspread. If you were honest and stupid, you worked a couple of lifetimes for that kind of money, doled out by the hour in pocket-change amounts by asswipe bosses.” - Charles Frazier
30. “I have always found that it is far more convenient to be rich rather than to be poor.” - Amanda Quick
31. “On a strange and devious way, Siddhartha had gotten into this final and most base of all dependencies, by means of the game of dice. It was since that time, when he had stopped being a Samana in his heart, that Siddhartha began to play the game for money and precious things, which he at other times only joined with a smile and casually as a custom of the childlike people, with an increasing rage and passion. He was a feared gambler, few dared to take him on, so high and audacious were his stakes. He played the game due to a pain of his heart, losing and wasting his wretched money in the game brought him an angry joy, in no other way he could demonstrate his disdain for wealth, the merchants' false god, more clearly and more mockingly.” - Hermann Hesse
32. “Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
33. “When you use Cosmic Ordering you will move from cloud nine to cloud ten.” - Stephen Richards
34. “On the road to success some will always expect tragedy ... ditch your doubts and experience success with Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards
35. “Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.” - Randy Alcorn
36. “Money as the sole ambition has no value.” - Habeeb Akande
37. “I am the Trolley of Love. Free rides before noon and after 11:58 am! ” - Dark Jar Tin Zoo
38. “Be positive at all times! Leave out the negatives.” - Agu Jaachynma N E
39. “The thing about money is," said Ben, "you can't be polite to it. Leave something suspicious to say, and it'll say it...Leave something greedy to say, and it'll say it...Leave something scary to say, and it'll say it."--"Money Talks” - Kurt Vonnegut
