Top 40 Material Things Quotes

I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.

Even though I didn’t have a lot of material things, I had the love and education and all together a lot of kids don’t have the same chances, so the goal is to give some chances to the kids that don’t have it.

I want to bring back the human encounter into places where material things have a prime status. In a museum, you’re supposed to look at things and not talk to other people.

Winning isn’t just about the material things you attain, it’s about being your best in all you do.

From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power – a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.

Let’s remember that our children’s spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.

Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other’s presence.

People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren’t here to enjoy them, what good do they do?

Let’s be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the spiritual aspects of our lives.

The biggest lesson from Africa was that life’s joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time.

I’m not a guy who’s about the material things.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That’s just not what my life is.

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.

Material things are not helpful after a certain degree of saturation. So you turn to other products. I think that therapy is a product that can transform you. But why does it need to be packaged as a product? Why can’t I work on myself with my friends and family?

I’m not big on material things, but I like my cars. They are German-made and custom-made.

Don’t depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don’t make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

By a lot of people’s standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I never wanted for material things. In some ways, I was probably spoiled because I never had to share. And I was doted on.

Material things ain’t nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it’s who you is. You wasn’t born with it; you gon’ die without it.

I didn’t have a great childhood, and neither did Debbie, my wife, so we both try to give the kids not only the material things we never had but also the hugs and the love.

My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They’re very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church.

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.

I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.

I don’t like to attach myself to material things.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

I’m not so in love with material things that I’ll do anything for money. That allows me the luxury of doing things of value.

Very early on in life, I decided the hell with it: material things weren’t for me. Christmas would come, and other kids would have all these presents, and it wouldn’t bother me a bit.

We never got much in the way of material things, but if you can be spoiled by good cooking, my mom spoiled me three times a day all my life.

It’s not only about the material things – I also have a spiritual side.

There’s nothing wrong with material things as long as you don’t lie, cheat and steal.

I never grew up with money, and I never wanted a lot of material things.

I don’t need material things like gold and platinum records on my wall, Grammys or Hall Of Fame nods.

It’s a little weird: you’re headlining a show on TV, and obviously, people like to associate that with material things. I drive a – what is it – 1999 Chevy Blazer. There’s no more cushion on the driver’s seat, and the tires are about gone.

Material things are delightful, but they’re not important.

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

Family always gonna be there. The material things, they come and go.

Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.

It’s nice to have material things but they’re very superficial aren’t they?

Material things aren’t important to me.

I don’t have a desire for material things. As long as I’m happy, I’m good, man.