Mencius Quotes

If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.

There's so much serenity that comes from economic safety.

Admittedly, having a bit of disposable cash in the bank can give you a sense of Buddhistic calm, and despite the fallacy involved, that's probably preferable to the bonafide adventure of robbing a bank. A better alternative, however, is to learn to be at peace even when common sense (a highly overrated virtue) would lead you to believe that someone in your situation ought to feel threatened and insecure.

I lead a simple life. I get residuals. I have a family; we're doing alright.

To me, wealth is the peace of mind you have, your family, your friends, your colleagues. Everything else is just money, and it really is funny how people pay so much attention to that.

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.

All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.

I've been on the side where you have nothing, and now I'm on the side where anything I want is there for me. When I didn't have the means to do whatever I wanted to do, I still had peace.

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

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

No matter how much money I ever get, I'm going to want to provide for my family and never have to go back to really struggling. You don't ever want to go outside, you don't ever want to be left in the cold. You want to be safe.

I know that no business contract, no order or commercial consideration can ever be worth the happiness of one's home or the peace of one's mind.

It is great to have some stability for myself, not only for myself but my family as well.

You can have X amount of pounds in your bank every month, but if you're not happy, and you're not finding peace in what you're doing, it doesn't really matter.

As long as I'm living decent, then I'm cool.

Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him.

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

Financial security puts me at ease and makes me reel good about my future

Contentment may be the most powerful Financial Principle. You can give more, avoid debt, and live better.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.