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Famous Money Quotes

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” – Mark Twain

“I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.” – Warren Buffet

“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.” – Robert Frost

“Money won’t create success. The freedom to make it will.” – Nelson Mandela

“Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.” – Zig Ziglar

“Time is money.” – Benjamin Franklin

“If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.” – Katherine Hepburn

“It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.” – Logan Pearsall Smith

“The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.” – Edith Wharton

“I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself – in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.” – Henry Ford

Famous Happiness Quotes

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer somebody else up.” – Mark Twain

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” – Thomas Jefferson

“It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.” – Dalai Lama

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” – Robert Frost

“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.” – Storm Jameson

“The U.S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” – Albert Schweitzer

Famous Death Quotes

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.” – Buddha

“Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.” – Albert Einstein

“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” – Mark Twain

“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.” – Will Rogers

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” – Edgar Allan Poe

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain

“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.” – Plato

Famous Courage Quotes

“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.” – E.E. Cummings

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill

“Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” – Mark Twain

“Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” – Ambrose Redmoon

“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” – Bruce Lee

“Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.” – John Wooden

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says ‘I’ll try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.” – Confucius

Famous Anger Quotes

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” – Lee Iacocca

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.” – Maya Angelou

“He who angers you conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny

“Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.” – Mohandas Gandhi

“When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.” – Mark Twain

“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.” – William Congreve

“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.” – Buddha

“Anyone can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not within everyone’s power and that is not easy.” – Aristotle

“Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.” – Dr. Joyce Brothers

Funny Quotes to Make You Smile

– “Whoever said ‘nothing is impossible’ never tried to nail jell-o to a tree.” – Lisa Bryant

– “A smile confuses an approaching frown.” – Anonymous

– “The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.” – Arthur C. Clarke

– “Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.” – Walter Anderson

– “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” – Oprah Winfrey

– “Start every day with a smile and get it over with.” – W.C. Fields

– “Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.” – William Arthur Ward

– “If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.” – Voltaire

– “I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.” – Groucho Marx

– “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

– “You’ll be richer in the end than a prince, if you’re a friend.” – Edgar A. Guest

– “Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It’s something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.” – Steve Martin

– “Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.” – Og Mandino

– “So, if you feel a smile begin, don’t leave it undetected, let’s start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!” – Russel H. Conwell

– “Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.” – Jerry Seinfeld

– “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” – Mark Twain

– “First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.” – Steve Martin

– “A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.” – Elbert Hubbard

– “When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.” – Sacha Guitry

– “If you don’t understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.” – Linda Sunshine

Famous People Quotes #9

“It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.” – Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell

“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” – Robert Orben

“The cynics are right nine times out of ten.” – Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

“There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.” – George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.” – Revelation 6:8

“Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.” – Plato (427-347 B.C.)

“Plato was a bore.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

“Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.” – Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

“I’m not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.” – Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

“Hemingway was a jerk.” – Harold Robbins

“Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things.”
– Epictetus (55-135 A.D.)

“What about things like bullets?” – Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist, Professor of Psychology, upon hearing the above quote (1981)

“How can I lose to such an idiot?” – A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935)

“Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.” – Woody Allen (1935-)

“I don’t feel good.” – The last words of Luther Burbank (1849-1926)

“Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn’t cure.” – Ross MacDonald (1915-1983)

“Men have become the tools of their tools.” – Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain (1835-1910)

“It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.” – Richard J. Ferris, president of United Airlines

“I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.” – Gore Vidal

“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.” – Woody Allen (1935-)

“Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.” – Abba Eban (1915-2002)

“A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.” – Abba Eban (1915-2002)

“To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.” – Charles William Stubbs

“Sanity is a madness put to good uses.” – George Santayana (1863-1952)

“Imitation is the sincerest form of television.” – Fred Allen (1894-1956)

“Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.” – Mark Twain (1835-1910)

“In America, anybody can be president. That’s one of the risks you take.” – Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)

“Copy from one, it’s plagiarism; copy from two, it’s research.” – Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)

“Why don’t you write books people can read?” – Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941)

“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.” – T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

“Criticism is prejudice made plausible.” – Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

“It is better to be quotable than to be honest.” – Tom Stoppard

“Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.” – Karl Wallenda

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” – Sun Tzu

“A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.” – Lao-Tzu (570?-490? BC)

” The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay

“Never mistake motion for action.” – Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” – Sir Stephen Henry Roberts (1901-1971)

“Hell is paved with good samaritans.” – William M. Holden

If you… #3

– “If you have the desire, you are halfway there.” – E. Crique

– “If you have time to worry, you have time to pray.”

– “If you have trouble getting your children’s attention, just sit down and look comfortable.”

– “If you judge people, you will have no time to love them.”

– “If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places.” – Andrew Mason

– “If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again; it was probably worth it.”

– “If you let go of the past, it no longer has a hold on you.”

– “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” – Winnie the Pooh

– “If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.”

– “If you love something set it free….If it comes back to you it is yours, if it doesn’t than it was never meant to be.”

– “If you need time alone, try cleaning the house.”

– “If you only have the Word, you will dry up. If you only have the Spirit, you will blow up. But if you you have the Word and the Spirit, you will go up and grow up.”

– “If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.”

– “If you receive something that says “Send this to all your friends”, please consider me not your friend.”

– “If your vision doesn’t scare you, then both your vision and your God are too small.” – Brother Andrew

– “If you set the example, you won’t need to set many rules.” – Mama Zigler

– “If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.” – Andrew A. Rooney

– “If you step in a puddle, don’t blame the puddle.”

– “If you still have the courage after loosing all , you can be rest assured that you have not lost everything.”

– “If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain

– “If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” Red Adair, when asked what his fee was for extinguishing oil well fires after the Gulf war.

– “If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of payments.”

– “If you think you are getting too much government these days, just be happy that you’re not getting all you are paying for.”

– “If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.” – Bette Reeves

– “If you treat a man as he is, he will remain as he is; if you treat him as he ought to be and could be, he will become as he ought to be and could be.” – Goethe

– “If you treat every situation like a life or death matter, be prepared to die a lot of times.”

– “If you understand something today, it must be obsolete.”

– “If you wait to have kids until you can afford them, you probably never will.”

– “If you want a thing well done, do it yourself.” – Charles Haddon Spurgeon

– “If you want breakfast in bed, then start sleeping in the kitchen.”

– “If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.” – Abigail Van Buren

– “If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap.”

– “If you want happiness for a day, go fishing.”

– “If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune.”

– “If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.” – Chinese proverb

– “If you want something done, ask someone who is busy!”

– “If you want to be a leader with a large following, just obey the speed limit on a winding, two-lane road.” – Charles Farr

– “If you want to be well liked never lie about yourself, and be careful when telling the truth about others.”

– “If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can’t buy.” – Robert Marlowe

– “If you want to play, practice.”

– “If you want to win, practice harder.”

– “If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say, talk in your sleep.”

– “If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say?”

– “If you will always insist that you are right, people will think that there is something wrong with you.” – Melchor F. Cichon

– “If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.” – Oriental Proverb

– “If you woke up this morning with more health than illness…you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.”

– “If you your lips would keep from slips,
Five things observe with care:
Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,
And how and when and where.”

Sarcastic Inspirational Quotes About Life

“What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.” – Mignon McLaughlin

“People that pay for things never complain. It’s the guy you give something to that you can’t please. ” – Will Rogers

“A half truth is a whole lie.”- Yiddish Proverb

“Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.” – Cynthia Nelms

“Opportunities are like sunsets. If you wait too long, you miss them.” – William Arthur Ward

“What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.”- Mark Twain

“An optimist thinks that this is the best possible world. A pessimist fears that this is true.”- Robert Oppenheimer

“The more that learn to read, the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.” – Will Rogers