Quotes related to Philippians 4:11
A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.
- Thomas a Kempis
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
- Herman Melville
A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.
- Charles Spurgeon
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mahatma Gandhi
World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.
- Marcus Aurelius
A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.
- Henry David Thoreau
I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
- Victor Hugo
Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.
- Samuel Johnson
Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.
- Cicero