Inspirational Quotes on Finances

“The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.”

“Let us not ask of the Lord deceitful riches, nor the good things of this world, nor transitory honors; but let us ask for light.”

“Fortune favors the audacious.”

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

“Poverty is no sin.”

“A church debt is the devil's salary.”

“Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.”

“The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.”

“Have you ever noticed that those who worry about finances never seem to have enough?”

“Reward a good servant well, and rather get quit of a bad one than disquiet thyself with him.”

“I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.”

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

“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.”

“Be thrifty, but not covetous.”

“Play not for gain, but sport; who plays for more than he can lose with pleasure stakes his heart.”

“A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.”

“When you plant your seed in the Kingdom of God, the Lord will multiply it far better than Wall Street.”

“Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God's Word, to bodily gifts, such as beauty and health; or to the gifts of the mind, such as understanding, skill, wisdom! Yet men toil for them day and night, and take no rest. Therefore God commonly gives riches to foolish people to whom he gives nothing else.”

“The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.”

“There is a Spanish proverb, that one who would grow rich must buy of those who go to be executed, as not caring how cheap they sell; and sell to those who go to be married, as not caring how dear they buy.”