Quotes related to Proverbs 15:16
Be satisfied with what you have.
- Aesop
Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes.
- Aesop
Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich.
- Tony Robbins
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
That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.
- 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
In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby!
- John Lennon
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau