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Benefits of Giving

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Albert Schweitzer

Success means not putting yourself first in life and remembering that the more you give away, the more you have.
Christopher Reeve

Money spent on myself may be a millstone about my neck; money spent on others may give me wings like the angels.
Roswell Hitchcock

A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.
Epictetus

Money

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 you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.
George Lorimer

Money is like mulch, not good except it be spread.
Sir Francis Bacon

I’m not motivated by the money. To me, that money is Monopoly money. It’s out there and it’s mine, but it doesn’t rule my world. The motivation is to be the best player I can be.
Derek Jeter

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor – poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.
Herbert Casson

Money will buy a bed, but not sleep;
Books, but not brains;
Food, but not appetite;
Finery, but not beauty;
A house, but not a home;
Medicine, but not health;
Luxuries, but not culture;
Amusement, but not happiness;
Religion, but not salvation;
A passport to everywhere but heaven.
Anonymous

Riches

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher

Riches are not the only wealth.
Icelandic proverb

Do not wear yourself out to get rich; have the wisdom to show restraint.
Proverbs 23:4

I think that the person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is very, very rich.
Mother Teresa

Money

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau

No amount of money can make others speak well of you behind your back.
Chinese Proverb

My father was never particularly interested in making money. And neither am I. He always said that if you do the right thing, and build your bridges strong, it will come automatically.
Phillip Wrigley

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.
John D. Rockefeller

I have yet to discover anyone who has found true happiness simply in the gathering of more money. Although money is not sinful or suspect in itself, it is not what brings lasting contentment, fulfillment or satisfaction.
Charles Swindoll

Success

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.
Florence Nightingale

Success is the ability to close the door on your past, regardless of your failures, and move forward.
Bill White

Just remember that success is relative. You don’t have to win a gold medal to be successful. As long as you feel good about yourself, you try as hard as you can and enjoy what you do, that is success.
Mia Hamm

Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
Mike Ditka

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
Helen Hayes

Avoid Debt

It is better to pay, and have but little left; than to have much, and be always in debt.
Thomas Fuller

Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Thomas Jefferson

Encourage living so that expenses will not be greater than earnings.
Christine de Pisan

He that gets out of debt grows rich.
English proverb

The best advice ever given to me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, “Don’t spend anything unless you have it.”
Dinah Shore

Money

Treat all of your money as if you earned it chopping firewood for a living.
Larry Burkett

There are only three rules for money:
1. Spending is for living today.
2. Saving is for living tomorrow.
3. Giving makes everyone happy.
Robert Wolgemuth

Money is an article which may be used as a universal passport to everywhere except heaven, and as a universal provider of everything except happiness.
Anonymous

Money simply makes you more of what you already were before you had it. If you were a giver before you had money, you will still be generous once you have wealth. If your focus was always the acquisition of riches, money will just feed your desire for more.
T.D. Jakes