Inspirational Quotes on Finances

“Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.”

“There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.”

“We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.”

“Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?”

“Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?”

“Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues. Other than beginning and ending with prayer, mentioning Christ, and sprinkling in some Bible verses, there's no fundamental difference. They reinforce people's materialist attitudes and lifestyles. They suggest a variety of profitable plans in which people can spend or stockpile the bulk of their resources. In short, to borrow a term from Jesus, some Christian financial experts are helping people to be the most successful 'rich fools' they can be.”

“The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.”

“There is a perpetual frost in the pockets of some rich people; as soon as they put their hands into them, they are frozen so they cannot draw out their purses. Had I my way, I would hang all misers; but reversing the common mode, I would hang them up by the heels, that their money might run out of their pockets.”

“To meet Jesus is to look yourself in the pocketbook, which is the most unmistakable way of looking yourself in the heart.”

“The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.”

“Fortune favors the audacious.”

“Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.”

“What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.”

“If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.”

“The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense, corrupts the purest souls.”

“Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain destruction and animosity between nations. It softens and polishes the manners of men. It unites them by one of the strongest of all ties-the desire of supplying their mutual wants. It disposes them to peace by establishing in every state an order of citizens bound by their interest to be the guardians of public tranquillity.”

“Do you wish to become rich? You may become so if you desire it in no half-way, but thoroughly. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.”

“The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.”

“The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.”

“Be thrifty, but not covetous.”