Quotes related to Ecclesiastes 5:10
If you want to be like the folks up on the hill, you have to learn to smile while you kill
- John Lennon
There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.
- Mother Teresa
To measure success with material things is failure!
- Tony Robbins
If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.
- St. John Chrysostom
He that deserves nothing should be content with anything.
- Charles Spurgeon
An eye and regard unto filthy lucre or profit in the world is proposed as opposite unto the readiness of mind which is required in them that are called to this work.
- John Owen
That's the genius of the capitalist system: Either you're rich, or you want to be, or you think you ought to be.
- John Updike
Now parents will say, "We're just trying to make ends meet," and they're telling the truth. But if you think too much about the pursuit of material things, you're going to hurt those youngsters you're working so hard to buy material things for.
- John Wooden
Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Maybe we are overdeveloped outwardly and underdeveloped inwardly. Perhaps it is we who, for all our wealth, are living in poverty.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the gotta have it scale.
- Zig Ziglar