Og Mandino Quotes

Wealth is of the heart and mind, not the pocket

I was rich before I had any money. Being rich has nothing to do with anything monetary.

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.

All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.

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

We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.

Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.

I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth.

Money - like health, love, happiness, and all forms of success that you want to create for yourself - is the result of living purposefully. It is not a goal unto itself.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

There is no wealth but love.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

Wealth is not a material gain, but a state of mind.

But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.

The only wealth I have to give, is not material - and if you need much more than that, I'm not available.

What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought the whalers and other entrepreneurs north? Or is it, rather, to have a good family life and to be imbued with a far-reaching and intimate knowledge of one’s homeland, which is what the Tununirmiut told the whalers at Pond’s Bay wealth was? Is it to retain a capacity for awe and astonishment in our lives, to continue to hunger after what is genuine and worthy? Is it to live at moral peace with the universe?

Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth.

Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.