Samuel Rogers Quotes

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.

God didn't make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God... If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Material things don't matter.

The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich.

I think when we shot 'Tokyo Drift' I was a little too young to really understand what made Han who he is, and then I got older, and you start to make a little bit of money, and you realize that money will never buy you happiness.

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

Don't struggle to get what you want, but modify your wants.

Very early on in life, I decided the hell with it: material things weren't for me. Christmas would come, and other kids would have all these presents, and it wouldn't bother me a bit.

The world assumes that we are very happy with high mansions, fine carriages, servants and attendants, huge investments, and concubines. But he who is without the honor and strength of the soul can be anything but happy.

I never put a premium on making a living. It was never one of those things that was important to me.

When I was a lad, my parents and all their equivalents never lusted after other people's riches or success.

I don't need five Ferraris in my garage to feel great; that's not what matters to me.

I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.

Better poverty without care, than riches with.

We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything

To the degree we can live without the things of this world, we are wealthy.

I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

Success for me is to feel happy - 80 percent of the time. That's been my goal in life. I think that comes from my father. He's a very optimistic, happy person. I'm not quite sure if I'll ever feel this, but I want to know how to be happy. I'm happy when I'm at work. I'm happy when I'm with my family or my dog. But there's always that feeling of, I'm not satisfied. I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.

The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.