Saint Augustine Quotes

People want riches; they need fulfillment.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

Money buys you nice things but it doesn't make you happy.

If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure.

Poor and content, is rich and rich enough; But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, To him that ever fears he shall be poor.

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

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

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.

Over the years I've learned being rich doesn't really have anything to do with money. That's being wealthy.

You want the people to know, but you don't really want the things behind it. I have everything I ever wanted. I never wanted a big house. I never wanted a Ferrari. I mean, as I proceeded with the music, I started liking Ferraris...

I used to think that having many material things would increase one's stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don't make the man at all.

Wealth and Content are not always Bed-fellows.

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

I don't need anything as long as I have my family, friends, millions of dollars, unlimited pussy.

Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any.

There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.

I have known lots of millionaires who were not happy men; they had not got all they wanted and therefore had failed to find success in life. A Singalese proverb says: "He who is happy is rich, but it does not follow that he who is rich is happy." The really rich man is the man who has fewest wants.

Happy can make you money, but money can't make you happy.

We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.

He who understands the limits of life knows that it is easy to obtain that which removes the pain of want and makes the whole of life complete and perfect. Thus he has no longer any need of things which involve struggle.

I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.