Material Quotes

Time is the material from which life is made

A child learns to be guilty when he is punished and scolded for damaging material objects

Love people. Use things. The opposite never works.

I am heartily glad that the trees and plants are still interested in copulatory activities

It's not the appearance that makes a man, it's the man that makes an appearance.

The worst of me is the raw material from which God molds the best of me.

Tragedy of life: we want to possess more material wealth, but fail to enjoy the spiritual riches.

Life and history have repeatedly taught us that values and virtues are far much stronger than the physical wealth we often see. For material wealth emanates from values and virtues.

When we break 5M’s of Manufacturing Efficiency - Men, Machine, Materials, Methods & Money to personal level, the first two M’s will spell Minutes & Mind, and rest remain constant!

Unfortunately, we do not often see the advantages in the power of values and virtues. We are easily taken away by physical wealth, material possessions and the power of money.

Money makes a monster of a man, that makes money his master.

At the end of the day, your relationships with the people in your life will be greater assets than any material things. Take time. Be present. You'll thank yourself for it later.

Money spent, will never out value spent time.

When we were together before, the world was small to us, but as you grew bigger to life and the world became desirous to living, we became smaller to each other.

now i am oldolder enough to have known the worldand i am sad

Life really is the chance to experience the material world in whatever form desired.

Simple minded people do things like gossip, lie, spread rumors, and cause troubles. But, I know you're more intelligent.

You cannot enrich yourself with material possessions. However, you can enrich yourself by giving yourself away with love, service, kindness, compassion, and courage.

The wealth of some people is here on earth. The wealth of other people is somewhere afar from the earth. Whatever the wealth may be, we must think of a wealth that is distinctive

Funny how in a material world full of pundits and economists obsessed with assets and liabilities -personally, economically and globally - few speak about the greatest of all these…YOU.

Sell your materials but save your morals.

I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper.

Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.

We can fill our lives with ‘stuff, ’ but as we do we’re concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that ‘stuff.

Learning is crucial if you want to remain special and material

When it becomes above normal, material happiness will feel like misery.

Death is the destiny of every man. Why do people fight over power and material wealth.We brought nothing into the world, certainly, we will take nothing out of the world.

A paucity of material can open up just as many possibilities.

It's often the material things that provide the essence of memory.

The best investments are in things you cannot buy.

Material wealth don’t just come and go, they come to stay as long as the virtues remain in the fabric of a nation

Material wealth alone is not enough to build a great nation.

He who dies with the most toys...dies a child.

Don't envy what people have, emulate what they did to have it.

Ultimately virility is all about helping others express their reluctantly shared feelings while doing so from a safe distance.

Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.

One of the secrets a nation can unlock to have material wealth is, having a leader who will take an uncompromising stand to establish truth and honesty as a rule of building the nation

While small minds were bragging about their material possessions, great minds were busy expanding their assets.

It's unfortunate how some people complain about being financially unstable, yet they use their last savings to acquire material things.

Materialistic things bring forth some pleasurable moments, but never a sample of happiness.

When you define yourself with your material possessions, you would likely attract those who would do anything humanly possible to come into your life to take advantage of you.

The value of a person’s life may not be determined on the basis of his material standing.

If you aren't happy for what you already have then what makes you think you will be happy with more.

When your focus on earth is only on material things and earthly blessings you will never be satisfied.

It takes time, or does time take it?

The 'all-for-me-and-only-me' mentality is the most destructive force on earth.

External beauty is certainly cool to admire, but when worshipped - it eclipses internal shine.

Eternal values are much more everlasting than the temporary physical material things.

School is a factory where the raw material called student is turned into a product called employee.

Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.