Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Materialism Quotes
IndifferenceMaterialismSpirituality Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.
FameMaterialismPowerTransient Success How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
ConscienceInner StatesMaterialismMissionsSpirituality The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
ContentmentHappinessJudgmentMaterialismSpirituality It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
AppearanceMaterialismSocial StatusVanityWealth Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
FollyGamblingIntellectMaterialism Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
FreedomMaterialismNoble LivingPossessions It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
CapitalismConsumer CultureEntrepreneurshipMaterialismNational Identity England is a nation of shopkeepers.
AbundanceHappinessMaterialismMoney MindsetWealth The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
FameHumilityMaterialismPerceptionValue Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.
GreedMaterialismPurpose I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
AbstractionAlienationContrastFulfillmentMaterialism Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
IdentityLossMaterialismSimplicity I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.
EnjoymentFinancial WisdomHappinessMaterialismWealth I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.
DesireEmptinessFulfillmentHuman NatureMaterialism Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Cultural critiqueMaterialismObjectification American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
GrowthHuman PotentialMaterialismProgressSimplicity Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
FulfillmentJoyMaterialismPurposeService Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
MaterialismSalvationSpirituality Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
KnowledgeMaterialismTrue RichesWisdom Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work... men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.
AnxietyHappinessMaterialismSuffering Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
HumanismMaterialismReligionSecularismSocial Change It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.
MaterialismMoralityPersonal Growth Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
AmbitionFulfillmentMaterialismPersonal GrowthSecurity We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
