Life Quotes

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

~ John Wooden

Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if you don't, you still won't hate going to work.

~ Jeff Foxworthy

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

~ Henry Ford

I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably.

~ Joan Cusack

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

~ Richard M. Devos

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.

~ Emo Philips

People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.

~ Jennifer Lopez

I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.

~ Dan Buettner

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

~ Johnny Depp

Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.

~ Robert De Niro

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

~ Zig Ziglar

People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

~ Felix Dennis

There are some things that you can fulfil with money, but at the end of the day these are not the things that make you happy. It is the small things that make life good.

~ Sebastian Vettel

My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.

~ David Suzuki

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.

~ Richard Branson

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

~ Bill Gates

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.

~ David Lynch

When we talk about having a life of significance and meaning, it's not about fame or money or resources. It's about people and lives and hearts. That's my biggest passion in life.

~ Tim Tebow

Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.

~ Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

~ Ayn Rand

The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.

~ Ricardo Semler

I'm enjoying life at my fullest. Sometimes you realize that money isn't everything.

~ Rey Mysterio

Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

~ P. T. Barnum

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

~ George Leigh Mallory

Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.

~ David Rockefeller

Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say 'their life' I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life.

~ Dave Chappelle

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

~ Thomas Sowell

Money is the most corrosive aspect of life today because it means that all attention to detail is forgotten.

~ Roberto Cavalli

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

~ Samuel Johnson

I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.

~ Richard Stallman

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

~ Finley Peter Dunne

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

~ Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

~ Seán O'casey

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

~ Curtis Carlson

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

~ Plato

In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.

~ Malala Yousafzai

I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.

~ Phil Mickelson

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

~ Plato

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.

~ Maria Montessori