Here is the list of materialistic quotes and sayings
Materialistic Quotes And Sayings
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“Material things only bring temporary happiness.”
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“To measure success with material things is failure!”
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“Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.”
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“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.” – James Oppenheim
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“If material things are what you’re talking about when you say “I’m blessed”. You have no idea what a blessing is.”
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“I’d rather a man promote his intelligence than promote materialistic, replaceable items.”
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“The real measure of you wealth is how much you’de be worth if you lost all your money.” – Bernard Meltzer
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“Materialism is the consciousness of wanting to exploit and enjoy.” – Radhanath Swami
09
“Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver and gold.”
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“One day you will realize that material things mean nothing, all that matters is the well- being of the people in your life.”
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“Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.” – Albert Einstein
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“Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Family always gonna be there. The material things, they come and go.” – Romeo Miller
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“The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.” – G.K Chesterton
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“Materialistic things don’t impress me. Your soul does.”
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“Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.” – Doug Horton
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“I’m not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.” – Victoria Beckham
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“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there would be peace.”
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“The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society.” – Jacque Fresco
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“Materialism will never make you happy. It keeps you just frustrated enough to make sure you buy more.” – Jean Sebastien Monzani
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“Money is a great servant but a bad master.” ― Francis Bacon
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“Do not fall in love with a materialistic person, they cannot love you back.”
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“Happiness is never found in materialistic things; it exists in things that cannot be physically possessed. Therefore, happiness is priceless. It can never be purchased.”
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“Anything a man can give me materialistic, I can give myself. So my definition of spoiling is giving me your time. Give me experiences.”
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“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.”
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“A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everyone else.” – Sadhguru
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“If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.” – Mary Baker Eddy
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“Materialism is an identity crisis.” – Bryant Mcgill
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“Superficial, lazy, and materialistic people purse relationships with people who possess the material things and income they desire to possess. They don’t desire true love.. They desire an image of true love based on what a person has, in order to impress other people.”
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“Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.” – Nikolai Berdyaev
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“Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.” – Peace Pilgrim
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“Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.” – Henri Frederic Amiel
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“Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.” – Rupert Sheldrake
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“There will be a change in worldview from materialism and failure to conscious evolution. And everyone’s potential to participate!” – Barbara Marx Hubbard
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“No thought, no mind, no choice – just being silent, rooted in yourself.” – Osho
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“When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.” – L. Ron Hubbard
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“I never cared about the material things someone could give me. I care about time, attention, honesty, loyalty and effort. Those gifts mean more to me than anything money could buy.”
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“Be with someone who will take care of you. Not materialistically, but take care of your soul, your well-being, your heart, and everything that’s you.”
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“The best gifts in the world are not in the material objects one can buy from the store, but in the memories we make with the people we love.”
40
“I’m not impressed by your looks, money, social status or job title I’m impressed by the way you treat other human beings.”
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“It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.” – Amit Ray
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“There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything – millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.” – Richard Pryor
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“Life is not about extravagance, materialism, or money. It’s about loving the people that matter most because you will never know if you will see them tomorrow.”
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“When you lose your desire for things that do not matter, you will be free.” – Morihei Ueshiba
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“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” – Will Smith
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“No one is going to stand up at your funeral and say ‘she had a really expensive couch and great shoes.’ Don’t make like about stuff.”
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“No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.” – Clement Attlee
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“If money and material things make you believe you are better than others, you are the poorest person on earth.”
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“Greed is the fear of inner emptiness.”
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“Materialistic way of life is always fearful because at every step there is danger. Materialistic life is full of anxieties and fear.”
51
“It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing the burden of too much concern with material things.” – Indra Devi
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“The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.” – Malcolm Muggeridge
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“The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.” – Bob Marley
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“Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.” – Douglas Horton
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“We’re all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people who’ll never be impressed.” – Sophie Kinsella
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“Our materialistic society needs a spray of spiritualism.” – E. Fehmida Khan
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“I’m not a materialistic person.” – Marat Safin
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“Real success is not, like, materialistic. It’s being where you want to be when you want to be, just living your life how you feel, having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it.” — Lindsey Wixson
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“What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
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“The best things in life are not things.”
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“In the real world, what matters is who you are, not what you have.”
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“We don’t but things with money. We buy them with hours from our lives.”
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“The goal isn’t more money. The goal is living life on your terms.”
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“Materialism is an identity crisis.”
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“We are so addicted, either to materialism or to transcending material reality, that we don’t see God right in front of us, in the beggar, the starving child, the brokenhearted woman; in our friend; in the cat; in the flea. We miss it, and in missing it, we allow the world to be destroyed.” — Andrew Harvey