Og Mandino Quotes

Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy, you must be reasonable, or you must be tamed. You must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world and what things in it can really serve you. To be happy, you must be wise.

Just because you got money doesn't mean you're gonna be happy, and just 'cuz you can buy everything in the world doesn't mean you're gonna find your purpose.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom; you will have everything.

Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

Money can't buy happiness.

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

You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.

Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth.

Another car is not going to help me out, a nicer car, I've already got it. A bigger house ain't gonna do anything for me, and you know, a yacht, it's not going to do anything for me anymore. So how can I find happiness?

But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.

Money cannot buy happiness.

What I think is so amazing about having everything, and feeling like I have everything, is that I don't really find happiness within materialistic things. Like, it's cool if I can buy myself a new car, and I think it's amazing for a week, but then the thrill is over, and I'm like, 'Oh, so I guess that wasn't really happiness.'

The money never mattered. I'm not kidding you. It hasn't really brought me any kind of happiness.

I wouldn't say money can buy happiness. Happiness starts with yourself. Money can buy a smile, though.

Success is happiness. People say, "Oh that sounds corny." No matter how rich you are you can only sit your ass in one seat at a time. You have to be comfortable in that seat.

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

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

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.