The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.
After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world.
There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence.
If you lend someone $15, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
A billion here and a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Money often costs too much.
When it’s a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
Money Quotes and Sayings
Mistake Quotes and Sayings
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don’t, you only make matters worse.
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
A mistake in judgment isn’t fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.
Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.
If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don’t worry about it, that’s the way we learn.
Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.
My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
There is no mistake, there has been no mistake, and there shall be no mistake.
I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
Never regret anything, because at one point you wanted it.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Math Quotes and Sayings
Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
The essence of math is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.
Math is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.
Round numbers are always false.
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of math.
In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except that it be that men do not sufficently understand the use of the Pure Mathematics.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.
2 is not equal to 3 – not even for very large values of 2.
The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
Twelve for 23… It doesn’t take a genius to see that’s under 50 percent.
“Obvious” is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.
What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things ?
One can always reason with reason.
The longer math lives the more abstract — and therefore, possibly also the more practical — it becomes.
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be occupied with the ideas of number and quantity.
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Math is the queen of the sciences.
To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain; to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.
A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it.
Math may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
I don’t believe in mathematics.
Math is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.
Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
The essence of mathematics is its freedom.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
It is as if mathematics were the vegetables of the academic dinner: Everyone knows that they are good for you, but no one forces you to eat them.
Math seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
Pure Mathematics is the science of the individual object in as much as it is born in thought.
Everything existing in the Universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Laughter Quotes and Sayings
Nobody ever died of laughter.
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.
Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.
You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing each other.
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
Laughter means sympathy.
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
A laugh is a smile that bursts.
A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.
In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.
Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Carry laughter with you wherever you go.
To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Beware of those who laugh at nothing or everything.
Laughter is part of the human survival kit.
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
He who laughs, lasts.
Seven days without laughter make one weak.
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Laughter is the most healthful exertion.
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
Laughter is a medicine with no side effects.
The best blush to use is laughter: It put roses in your cheeks and in your soul.
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Laughter is an instant vacation.
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed.
You can’t stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.
I try to bring the audience’s own drama – tears and laughter they know about – to them.
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Kindness Quotes and Sayings
If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you.
Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
My religion is simple, my religion is kindness.
Be kind to unkind people – they need it the most.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
Kindness: A language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Don’t wait for people to be friendly, show them how to be.
The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid.
Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.
Open your heart – open it wide; someone is standing outside.
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Wherever there is a human being, there is a chance for a kindness.
Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Love someone who doesn’t deserve it.
Joy Quotes and Sayings
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
Now and then it is good to pause in our pursuit of Joy and just be Joyful.
I am glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word : excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Happiness consists in activity. It is a running steam, not a stagnant pool.
Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone’s life.
Goodness of heart is life to a man, joy is what gives him length of days.
The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
The closer you come to your core, the greater is your joy.
They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
At Earth’s great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
Job Quotes and Sayings
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
The person who knows how……. will always have a job, but the person who knows why….. will be the boss.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
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.
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
The secret of success is doing well the job close at hand.
It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t.
Do your job and demand your compensation….but in that order.
Back of the job-the dreamer Who’s making the dream come true.
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
One important key to success is self confidence. An important key to self confidence is preparation.
The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
A job done well stays well done forever.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Many people quit looking for work when they find a job.
If you have a job without any aggravations, you don’t have a job.
No one can help you in holding a good job except Old Man You.
We’re supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.
Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.
There is no indispensable man.
A judge is a student who marks his own exam paper.
You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
We pretend to work because they pretend to pay us.
Garden: A thing of beauty and a job forever
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
My job is never work….the only time it seems like work is when I’d rather be doing something else.
You hate your job ? Why didn’t you say so ? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.
I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.
There’s no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
Invitation Quotes and Sayings
An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.
When you invite people to think, you are inviting revolution.
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse.
The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess.
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
A steady salary is an invitation to mediocrity.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Spend the afternoon.You can’t take it with you.
There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
I am thankful for the mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends.
If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.
If you call one wolf, you invite the pack.
A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.
I like my use of light to be openly situational in the sense that there is no invitation to meditate, to contemplate.
I go where I’m invited. And all I can tell you is if we accepted every invitation we had, I’d be away every day of my life.
What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.
You don’t have to accept the invitation to get angry. Instead, practice forgiveness, empathy and encouragement.
Those who easily forgive invite offenses.
People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
Did you ever feel like the whole world was going to a party and your invitation got lost in the mail ?
We invite, then, the world to come with its silver and make the exchange.
Honesty Quotes and Sayings
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
When in doubt, tell the truth.
An honest man is respected by all parties.
When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.
An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
Do not do what you would undo if caught.
If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
An honest man’s the noblest work of God.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Always tell the truth. If you can’t always tell the truth, don’t lie.
Truth fears no questions.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
A half truth is a whole lie.
Honesty is fearing a negative response and telling the truth anyway.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Who lies for you will lie against you.
The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
When truth is divided, errors multiply.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Honesty is the best policy.
If you want to ruin the truth, stretch it.
A few honest men are better than numbers.
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
Honesty pays, but it doesn’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.
Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.
No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.
Honest hearts produce honest actions.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.
Supporting the truth, even when it is unpopular, shows the capacity for honesty and integrity.
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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