56 Money Quotes To Inspire

In a world where financial success is often equated with personal achievement, the right words can serve as powerful motivators. Whether you're striving to build wealth, gain financial freedom, or simply develop a healthier relationship with money, a well-crafted quote can offer valuable insight and inspiration. Today, we've curated a collection of the top 56 money quotes to inspire and guide you on your financial journey. From timeless wisdom to modern perspectives, these quotes might just provide the spark you need to take control of your financial destiny.

1. “Often people attempt to live their lives backwards, they try to have more things or more money in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are then do what you need to do in order to have what you want. ” - Margaret Young

2. “I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.” - Dodie Smith

3. “I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?” - Dodie Smith

4. “Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.” - Louisa May Alcott

5. “Its easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket.” - Craig Ferguson

6. “Brent Kessel combines some of the most sophisticated knowledge of financial planning and investment strategies with a sincere and grounded practice in the meditation arts. He has written the deepest and most comprehensive book about money in some time. I applaud him for it. It calls for a serious reading.” - George Kinder

7. “The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.” - Paul Auster

8. “Across town, over in the East Village, the graffiti was calling for the rich to be eaten, imprisoned, or taxed out of existence. Though it sometimes seemed like a nice idea, I hoped the revolution would not take place during my lifetime. I didn't want the rich to go away until I could at least briefly join their ranks. ” - David Sedaris

9. “In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.” - Soren Kierkegaard

10. “When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.” - Napoleon Hill

11. “Restraining, saving, assuring your checkbook balance...what does all taht amount to? If I go broke one day I'll just take out loans” - Novala Takemoto

12. “Whomsoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.” - James Garfield

13. “A man who loves money is a bastard, someone to be hated. A man who can't take care of it is a fool. You don't hate him, but you got to pity him.” - Stephen King

14. “Tearing money is an impiety, like throwing away bread.” - Jorge Luis Borges

15. “I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.” - Steve Martin

16. “But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.” - Lewis Hyde

17. “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

18. “Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.” - George Orwell

19. “Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.” - Candace Bushnell

20. “America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.” - Ayn Rand

21. “Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say it's mercenary of me, but there it is” - Agatha Christie

22. “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

23. “But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell them I didn't give a flying fuck how it was doing in the marketplace, that what I cared about was how it was doing in the reader's heart?” - Stephen King

24. “Your dreams will come true, but do not be overly demanding. Be logical – there are not enough mansions for everyone in the world, are there?” - Stephen Richards

25. “I have my own theory: ignorance is bliss. The less you know, the more confident you can be in tackling things.” - Stephen Richards

26. “You don't manifest dreams without taking chances.” - Stephen Richards

27. “Stand out from the crowd, be yourself.” - Stephen Richards

28. “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

29. “Remember that in the end, the universe responds to our emotions, not to our words.” - Stephen Richards

30. “Be open to the realization that who you were before and who you are now are two different people, and that what may have made you happy then, may not be the same thing that will make you happy now.” - Stephen Richards

31. “If we truly love ourselves, in spite of our flaws, then we can love others in spite of theirs.” - Stephen Richards

32. “The Most Dangerous Book In America” - Michael Mayhem

33. “When one is grown up, money is lying about at one's service. It is only when one is young that it is rare. Take no thought for money - that always lies to hand.(Women in Love)” - D. H. Lawrence

34. “Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.” - Maureen Johnson

35. “A man may fail many times, and then he turns to Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

36. “Every time you borrow money, you're robbing your future self.” - Nathan W. Morris

37. “I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of money which is above all things the most coveted commodity but I, as a Jainist, in the name of my countrymen and of my country, would offer you as the medium of the most perfect exchange between us, henceforth and forever, the indestructible, the unchangeable, the universal currency of good will and peace, and this, my brothers and sisters, is a currency that is not interchangeable with silver and gold, it is a currency of the heart, of the good life, of the highest estate on the earth.” - Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

38. “Anybody have any money?”Frank checked his pockets. “Three denarii from Camp Jupiter. Five dollars Canadian.”Hedge patted his gym shorts and pulled out what he found. “Three quarters, two dimes, a rubber band and—score! A piece of celery.”He started munching on the celery, eyeing the change and the rubber band like they might be next.” - Rick Riordan

39. “Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield so that by giving we can prove that our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man’s business so he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that thousands of unreached peoples can be reached with the gospel.” - John Piper

40. “I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I have not thought about it, and I have not told you about it. You only see me at night, and you give me your love; if you were to see me in the daytime, you would give me a sou!” - Victor Hugo

41. “Judas became the spokesman of all those who through the centuries would protest the ornamentation of the Christian cult and would feel that, when the best of gold and jewels were given to the God Who made them, there was some slight made to the poor - not because they were interested in the poor, but because they were envious of that wealth.” - Fulton J. Sheen

42. “While many ethnic and religious groups are mainly focused on the afterlife and downplaying this world, Jews view wealth and success as a blessing and gift from God.” - H.W. Charles

43. “What a pair they were - a Mistborn who felt guilty wasting coins to jump and a nobleman who thought balls were too expensive.” - Brandon Sanderson

44. “When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less about people.” - Margaret Heffernan

45. “I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.” - James M. Cain

46. “Money is but one venue for generosity.Kindness is an even more valuable currency.” - Alan Cohen

47. “Even with my deepest soul I knew too well that all of these were just a stairs to heaven.” - Fernando Lachica

48. “It was such a feeling of developing your inner self to the people who liked to dig deeper and deeper until you cannot fathom the deepest evil in you.” - Fernando Lachica

49. “A dream business that doesn't make money is a living nightmare.” - Habeeb Akande

50. “God takes us through life`s journey. Always nudging our Spirits to go for plus and shun the minus.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

51. “Don`t descend to the lowest ebb.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

52. “Drown those degrading thoughts.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

53. “People who sell bolts and nuts and locomotives and frozen orange juice make billions, while the people who struggle to bring a little beauty into the world, give life a little meaning, they starve.--"$10,000 A Year, Easy” - Kurt Vonnegut

54. “Old Sam Hamilton saw this coming. He said there couldn’t be any more universal philosophers. The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb. He saw a time when one man would know only one little fragment, but he would know it well.”“Yes,” Lee said from the doorway, “and he deplored it. He hated it.”“Did he, now?” Adam asked...“Now you question it, I don’t know,” he said. “I don’t know whether he hated it or I hate it for him... Maybe the knowledge is too great and maybe men are growing too small... Maybe kneeling down to atoms, they’re becoming atom-sized in their souls. Maybe a specialist is only a coward, afraid to look out of his little cage. And think what any specialist misses! The whole world over his fence!”“We’re only talking about making a living.”“A living? Or money?” Lee said excitedly. “Money’s easy to make if it’s money you want. But with a few exceptions people don’t want money. They want luxury, and they want love, and they want admiration.” - John Steinbeck

55. “Creativity and passion dwindle when hungry. Premiums for talent are easier to demand when desperation isn’t part of the equation. If I’m established, I can demand $350 an hour. If I’m desperate, I may accept $5.” - John-Talmage Mathis

56. “When someone loves you so much that He dies for you, you can trust that any rewards He promises are going to be good.” - David Servant