Sometimes, all we need is a little bit of inspiration to keep going. Often, inspiration and motivation can be found in short sentences rather than in long lectures. Here is a collection of 30 of the most inspiring and humorous quotes to serve as your daily dose of encouragement. Knock yourself out!
- “Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.” – Woody Allen
- “You don’t want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can’t enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.” – Dave Ramsey
- “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” – Epictetus
- “Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.” – Helen Gurley Brown
- “Money is the best deodorant.” – Elizabeth Taylor
- “The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.” – Sir Henry Taylor
- “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” – Oscar Wilde
- “If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.” – Earl Wilson
- “The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream.”
– Bill Murray
- “Money without brains is always dangerous.”– Napoleon Hill
- “This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are indebt.” – Earl Wilson
- “I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.” –Malcolm Forbes
- “Money doesn’t talk, it swears.” – Bob Dylan
- “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
- “Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.” – Steven Wright
- “You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.” – Tennessee Williams
- “You can’t tell a millionaire’s son from a billionaire’s.” – Vance Packard
- “Somebody said to me, ‘But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.’ That’s a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ‘Now, let’s write a swimming pool.’” –Paul McCartney
- “I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.” – Jackie Mason
- “Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That’s how rich I want to be.” – Rita Rudner
- “Lack of money is the root of all evil.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked, ‘What is the root of money?’” – Ayn Rand
- “Money is usually attracted, not pursued.” – Jim Rohn
- “A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.” –Bob Hope
- “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
- “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” –Jim Rohn
- “If inflation continues to soar, you’re going to have to work like a dog just to live like one.” – George Gobel
- “It’s money. I remember it from when I was single.” – Billy Crystal
- “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
Don’t these quotes get you thinking about money differently? Print them out and hang them on your favourite wall. You’ll never run out of inspiration.