Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

As exercise is necessary to the development of physical muscle, so development of the moral nature is accomplished through temptation. The soul being given choice, may exercise it in whatever direction it chooses, for it learns just as well by its mistakes as by right action in the first place, perhaps even better.

As we get rich, the basics of life - food, clothing and shelter - become a very small part of total expenditure. And people have enough money to purchase things that enhance them spiritually, and I mean the word 'spiritual' not necessarily in a religious sense but in the sense that it adds to your feeling of well-being.

Even if a country has money and technology, if it is retarded spiritually or morally, we cannot say it is advanced.

The fact is prosperity has a purpose. It’s to allow us to pursue "the better angels," to give us time to think and grow.

I am a happier person living in a country which has surplus of everything rather than shortages.

We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.

God’s priority isn’t your destination but your development. God’s priority isn’t the dream but the dreamer.

God always wants us to be growing.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.

The American Dream is really money.

Success is a sort of metaphysical experience. I live exactly as I did before - only on a slightly bigger scale. Naturally, I won't be corrupted. I'll sit there in my Rolls, uncorrupted, and tell my chauffeur, uncorruptedly, where to go.

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I'm comfortable with money and it's comfortable with me.

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown. But all the more on this account it is necessary to provide a powerful check and counterpoise, lest the pursuit of gain be enhanced to an importance never rightfully its own, lest, in proportion as we enhance our comfort and well-being, comfort and well-being become the main objects of existence, and life's grander motives and meanings be forgotten. We have already transgressed the limit of safety

People are wanted on the farms to raise corn and grow stock for the markets; but they are wanted there far more for the training of manhood and womanhood in moral worth, in religious sensibility, in all the traits of a strong, upright personality. In the future as never heretofore, our cities with their multiplying wealth and lavish luxury are likely to need the country for that steady renewal of their better life which shall keep them from relaxing into sensuality and sinking into decay.

Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.