200+ Motivational Finance Quotes
Check out this list of Motivational Quotes for Finance that will inspire you.
Money management can be a bit difficult. It is tasking to everyone, not just you. So, to make this easy, we have combed the internet for 200+ motivational quotes for finance for individuals, businesses, couples, students, etc.
“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
“Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.” — Margaret Bonanno
“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” ― Colin Powell
“A formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” ― Jim Rohn
“Timing, perseverance, and 10 years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” ― Biz Stone (co-founder of Twitter)
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” ― Walt Disney
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” ― Steve Jobs
“Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.” ― William Penn
“Money, like emotions, is something you must control to keep your life on the right track.” ― Natasha Munson
“There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” ― Nelson Mandela
“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.” ― Pablo Picasso
“It’s better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.” ― Jackie Joyner-Kersee
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one.” ― Mark Twain
“Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage.” —Thomas J. Stanley
“A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.” ― George Patton
“Don’t live the same day over and over again and call that a life. Life is about evolving mentally, spiritually, and emotionally.” ― Germany Kent
“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” ― Harry Golden
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” ― Plato
“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.” ― Kofi Annan
“Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.” ― Robert Kiyosaki
“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” ― Gloria Steinem
“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” ― Tony Robbins
“If you want to be financially free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.” — Robert Kiyosaki
“Do one thing every day that scares you.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” ― Jesse Owens
“All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” ― Brian Tracy
“It’s not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” ― Seneca
“Knowledge is power: you hear it all the time but knowledge is not power. It’s only potential power. It only becomes power when we apply it and use it. Somebody who reads a book and doesn’t apply it, they’re at no advantage over someone who’s illiterate. None of it works unless you work. We have to do our part. If knowing is half the battle, action is the second half of the battle.” ― Jim Kwik
“Be bold enough to use your voice, brave enough to listen to your heart, and strong enough to live the life you have always imagined.” ― Anonymous
“Belief in oneself and knowing who you are … that’s the foundation for everything great.” ― Jay-Z
“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” ― Tony Robbins
“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.” ― Napoleon Hill
“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” ― Steven King
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” ― Winston Churchill
“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” ― Winston Churchill
“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” ― Anonymous
“Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.” ― Napolean Hill
“You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” ― Johnny Cash
“Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action” ― Jim Rohn
“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” ― Henry Ford
“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” ― Frances of Assisi
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”– Winston S. Churchill
“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” ― Moliere
“You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.”—Steve Garvey
“I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.”— Venus Williams
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”– Thomas Edison
“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage; that we move on to better things.”– Theodore Roosevelt
“How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.” ― Robert G. Allen
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end.”-Seneca
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” — Robert Collier
“The four most dangerous words in investing are: ‘this time it’s different.” ― Sir John Templeton
“What you’re thinking is what you’re becoming.” ― Muhammad Ali
“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.” ― Mother Teresa
“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.” ― Benjamin Disraeli
“A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.” ― Confucius
“Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do.” ― Barbara De Angelis
“Action is the foundational key to all success.” ― Pablo Picasso
“All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.” ― Jim Rohn
“Honesty is the highest form of intimacy.” ― Unknown
“Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” ― Brad Henry
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Our greatest natural resource is in the minds of our children” ― Walt Disney
“A perfect relationship isn’t actually perfect, it’s just that both people never give up.” ― Anonymous
“Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate.” ― Anonymous
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” ― Benjamin Franklin
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” ― John F Kennedy
“One day, someone will walk into your life and make you see why it never worked out with anyone else.” ― Unknown
“No amount of money or success can take the place of time spent with your family.” ― Unknown
“The greatest gift you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.” ― Dennis Waitley
“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.” ― Dave Meurer
“Always plan ahead: it wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” ― Richard Cushing
“Children are sponges—they are going to absorb whatever is around them, so we need to be intentional about what surrounds them.” ― Dave Ramsey
“The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.” ― Robert C. Dodds
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ― Lao Tzu
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.” ― Anthony Brandt
“Making the decision to have a child — it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.” ― Elizabeth Stone
“I’m not a perfect parent, but I’m exactly the parent my child needs.” ― Anonymous
“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.” ― Lee Iacocca
“An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.” ― Spanish Proverb
“Children learn more from what you are, than what you teach.” – W.E.B. Du Bois
“Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” ― Dolly Parton
“The most important thing in the world is family and love.” ― John Wooden
“Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.” ― Chuck Palahniuk
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” ― Joe Bide
“The value we provide most to others is the same value we appreciate most from others.” ― Simon Sinek
“A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.” ― Dave Ramsey
“Never spend your money before you’ve earned it.” ― Thomas Jefferson
“It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.” —Robert Kiyosaki
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” ― Henry David Thoreau
“Do not save what is left after spending; instead spend what is left after saving.” ― Warren Buffett
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” — Ayn Rand
“Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. it’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to.” ― Mitch Albom
“A budget is more than just a series of numbers on a page; it is an embodiment of our values.” ― Barack Obama
“If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.” ― Benjamin Franklin
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” ― Frederick Douglass
“The real voyage of discovery consists in not seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ― Marcel Proust
“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.” ― Peter F. Drucker
“Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.” ― Josh Billings
“No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.”― Seneca
I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died. –Malcolm Forbes
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. –Steve Jobs
The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money. –Anonymous
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. –P.T. Barnum
Try to save something while your salary is small; it’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more. –Jack Benny
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. –Henry David Thoreau
The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. –Ben Graham
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. –Thomas Jefferson
You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you. –Dave Ramsey
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. –Steve Jobs
The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind. –T.T. Munger
Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” –Joe Biden
If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough. –Vicki Robin
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. –Winston Churchill
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. –Charles Caleb Colton
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. –Albert Einstein
It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. –Vince Lombardi
It’s not the situation, but whether we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that’s important. –Zig Ziglar
Financial peace isn’t the acquisition of stuff. It’s learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can’t win until you do this. –Dave Ramsey
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. –Seneca
It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages. –Henry Ford
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. –Franklin D. Roosevelt
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. –Norman Vincent Peale
It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy. –George Lorimer
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you. –Maya Angelou
Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That’s not just a catchy slogan. It’s the very essence of successful investing. –J. Paul Getty
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. –Henry Ford
My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. –Abraham Lincoln
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. –Eleanor Roosevelt
The four most expensive words in the English language are, ‘This time it’s different.’ –Sir John Templeton
I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. –Pablo Picasso
Fortune sides with him who dares. –Virgil
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. –Arthur Schopenhauer
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. –Edmund Burke
No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself. –Plato
My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil. –JP Getty
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. –David Brinkley
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. –Roger Babson
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. –John Wayne
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. –Mahatma Gandhi
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. –Mark Twain
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. –J. K Rowling
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. –Bruce Lee
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. –Dale Carnegie
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand
Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. –Robert Kiyosaki
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. –Steve Jobs
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed. –Abraham Lincoln
Screw it, Let’s do it! –Richard Branson
If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it! –Jonathan Winters
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar
A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. –Henry Kravis
As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. –Donald Trump
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. –Vidal Sassoon
Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. –Winston Churchill
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. –Benjamin Franklin
If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters. –Chris Guillebeau
Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like. –Will Rogers
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. –Jonathan Swift
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. –Epictetus
Money often costs too much. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we’ve got 24 hours each. –Christopher Rice
It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. –David Feherty
Frugality includes all the other virtues. –Cicero
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. –Benjamin Franklin
I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy. –Warren Buffett
If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. –George Bernard Shaw
How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case. –Robert G. Allen
“If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” — Steve Jobs
“Do what you love. When you love your work, you become the best worker in the world.“ — Uri Geller
“We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.” ― Thomas A. Edison
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
“Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy.” — Marshall Field
“The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient.” — Warren Buffett
“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.” ― Confucius
“The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.” ― Iyanla Vanzant
“All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” ― Earl Nightingale
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Don’t look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack.” — Jack Bogle
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” — Abraham Lincoln
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” — Michelangelo
“Follow your passion; it will lead you to your purpose.” — Oprah Winfrey
“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” — Lao Tzu
“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.” — Edmund Burke
“No one has ever become poor by giving.” — Anne Frank
“Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.” — Carrie Fisher
“Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.” ― Oprah Winfrey
“There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.” — Marlene Dietrich
“Don’t wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait.” — Will Rogers
“Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.” — Zig Ziglar
“Buy land. They’re not making it anymore.” — Mark Twain
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius
“Passion is the genesis of genius.” — Tony Robbins
“Wealth is largely the result of habit.” — John Jacob Astor
“The major fortunes in America have been made in land.” — John D. Rockefeller
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ― Anne Frank
“Alone we can do so little; together, we can do so much.” ― Helen Keller
“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?” — Bob Hope
“I believe my life’s gonna see, the love I give returned to me.” ― John Mayer
“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” — Maya Angelou
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” ― Charles Dickens
“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” ― H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” ― Stephen Covey
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” ― Winston Churchill