Proverbs about money and material values ​​exist in every nation. According to their content, one can judge what attitude to wealth is cultivated in the country and in what prosperity its people live. Through these sayings, proverbs and aphorisms, the level of culture in the state and the lifestyle of its citizens become clear. Using winged expressions and quotes about wealth and eternal values ​​selected here, it is easy to explain to children not only the essence of material wealth, but also the importance of spiritual beauty.

Russian proverbs about wealth and eternal values

The Russian people throughout history have experienced a lot. Our ancestors faced war, hunger and poverty. The difference between the standard of living of the poor and rich people was a huge chasm. All these misfortunes were reflected in folk art.

Many proverbs and sayings about money in our culture are negative in relation to a rich person, luxury, squandering. But intangible values, on the contrary, always remain in high esteem and glorified.

Most Russian proverbs about wealth lead a person to the following conclusions:

  1. To earn a fortune, you need to know a lot and work hard.
  2. Happiness does not boil down to possessing a large number of material values.
  3. Health, youth, love and a good name are much more expensive than money.
  4. To achieve respect for others and success in any business, you need to talk less and do more.
  5. Only honestly earned capital can bring happiness.
  6. Do not envy the rich and be shy of their social status.
  7. Considerable efforts must be made to not only accumulate wealth, but also to preserve it in the future.

All these truths are confirmed by morality in folk proverbs and sayings compiled by a simple Russian person. By their content, one can judge the life, mentality and culture of our ancestors.

 

What a treasure, if in a family way.

Speak little, listen a lot, and think even more.

Do not sit back, there will be no boredom.

A good heart is better than a favor.

Thank you - a great word.

He who is patient is fortunate.

Do not tire of doing good.

Whoever helped soon helped twice.

For good advice, contact your parent or teacher.

Benefit from the error.

Listen to everyone, and have your mind.

There will be a hunt - any work will go smoothly.

Fell, so get up.

Better is the bitter truth than the sweet lie.

Standing high - do not be proud, standing low - do not rot.

Don't always say what you know, but always know what you're saying.

Who asks, he learns.

Those who love God will receive much good.

Do not envy someone else's happiness.

Better not to promise than not to keep your word.

One is better than two tomorrow.

There is a way out even of a difficult situation.

Do not praise yourself, let people praise you.

Do not be angry at a rude word; do not give up on an affectionate word.

Be skillful not in language but in deed.

I did not think to live richly, but I had to.

We didn’t live richly, there’s nothing to start.

The rich are welcome everywhere.

Wealth gives birth to the mind, and the need for cheeks knits.

The abdomen is full in wealth, the soul is hungry.

Rich Ivan - rich and pan.

The rich are looking for places, and the wretched is watching the test.

Miroshka is rich, and belly - a dog and a cat.

Rich powerful powerful, and cancer claw.

Cancer has power in its claw, and rich man has moshin.

He became rich: instead of varnish boots he put on lime (ironic).

Rich Timoshka: there is a dog and a cat.

The rich went to a feast, and wretchedly wandered into the world.

Rich, rich, and without bread - not a peasant.

It is rich that the church mouse.

A rich spoon with a ladle, a poor spoon with a jolly one.

Wealthy and fit.

The rich are sorry for the ship, the poor - a crutch, and the poor - a wallet.

The rich and the crowded paradise.

Wealth - soon the path to evil.

Wealth - arrogance of relatives.

Wealth and kalechestvo - the same squalor.

Wealth lives, and poverty lives.

Wealth and peace rarely live together.

Wealth for an hour, and poverty for a century.

You cannot buy wealth of mind.

Rich - so hello, and wretched - so goodbye!

We will not be rich, but we will be full.

The rich got up before us and grabbed everyone.

The rich does not feed the poor, but all are full.

The rich poor do not understand.

Rich without generosity is food without salt.

The rich is lying - no one will take him.

The rich are always in fear.

The rich eats oily, and the poor put his tongue out the window.

Rich gold does not eat, and the poor does not gnaw a stone.

Rich in money, and poor in fiction.

Rich in money, fudge.

The rich couple rides, and the poor one weaves in two.

The rich man got drunk, and the poor one wasn’t full yet.

A rich no sugar goiter, a poor no stone gnaws.

The rich cry for the ship, and the beggar for the wallet.

A rich conscience will not buy, but will destroy his own.

The rich will sit down to eat - there is something to ruin.

The rich do not know that the poor dine.

The rich man whispers with a godfather, and the beggar with a summa.

It’s hard to be rich, and well-fed no wonder.

The rich eat kalachi, but do not sleep, day or night; the wretched one does not slurp - he will fall asleep.

The rich man to steal, and the poor to swear.

You will be rich, you will be horned.

You will be rich, you will be stingy.

I will be rich, I will be horn: whoever I want, that and rabble.

You can’t keep up with the rich.

He who is rich is horned.

He who is rich is holy.

He is rich who does not know the need.

The rich have a yard of the stomach, and the poor have the huts.

The rich threshing floor and the pig are smart.

The rich do not bother, but miss.

Rich crazy - a headless body.

Rich, but cheating; poor but honest.

Wealth is dust, and honor is the road.

A rich man, rowing money with a shovel.

Life is given for good deeds.

To live is to serve the motherland.

Not the one who lives longer, who lives longer.

Do not live so that anyone who can eat it will eat, but live so that people like themselves.

Sleep a lot - live a little: what is overslept is lived.

Living at home is not necessary.

Live for people, people will live for you.

Live longer, learn more.

Devote life to the truth.

We must take from life everything that it can give.

You live more - you see more.

And life is good, and life is good (V. Mayakovsky).

It is important to know not how you were born, but how you will die.

Life is more precious than all treasures.

Who lives the truth, he lives faithfully.

Joyful life amuses the heart.

Another lives - only chews bread, sleeps - the sky smokes.

To live with a friend, but the enemy would have prevented.

Lives does not live, but lives to live.

We do not live in poverty, we serve the Soviet Motherland.

Yun with toys, and old with pillows.

The body is spacious, the soul is cramped.

You will live - you will see, and you will tell me.

The crow lives: wherever it wants, it flew there.

Get off, a bad life, get a good one.

Wait and see, but not see, so hear.

He doesn’t live, circling the world.

There was a dark and tearful life - it became bright, collective farm.

Do not live as you want, but as the country needs.

Live one day.

Live while you live.

Thunderstorms threaten, and tenants live.

The tenant is a thatched porch.

There is life in the old dog yet.

Live simply - you will live to be a hundred.

Fate is a villain, and life is a penny.

The most important thing is life.

Not to fat, to be alive.

Life to live is not a field to go over.

We live only once.

We live and wait for bread.

Lives like harmony plays.

Living living and thinking.

Still not dead, but no longer living.

We will be alive - we will not die.

Living all deaths in spite.

Life is not red for days, but red is military affairs.

Not the one who lived a great life for whom he was many years old, but the one who did a lot.

To live without benefit in the world is only to burden the earth.

A purposeless life is that slow death.

Live for people, not for yourself.

He gloriously lived and gloriously died.

Life goes on: whoever does not keep up with it remains lonely.

Not one lives longer, whose age is longer.

Anyone who wants to get a sense out of life is not afraid of anything.

You will know the price of life when you lose it.

As he lives, so he is known.

What is life, such is the end.

Life hangs on a thread, but thinks about profit.

Life is getting worse, and the collar is already narrower.

Life is a life of strife.

Life is outdated - and others to beat and be beat.

Life is measured not by years, but by labor.

Life has bothered, and you won’t get used to death.

Life is not red, and death is not terrible.

To live life is not a whip.

Life to live - that sea cross.

Life is like the moon: now full, then at damage.

Life is a penny, the head is a profitable business.

Life runs, and the years go by.

Life without a goal - a shot without a sight.

Life takes its toll.

Life to lead - do not shake the reins.

Life Outlived - Do Not Weave Bast Shoes.

Life is short, but long glory.

Our life is a full bowl.

Life is not a stone: it does not lie in one place, but runs forward.

Life is not a horse - you cannot beat it with a whip.

To live through life is to swim across the sea: you have some fun, and to the bottom.

Life is always expensive. (laksky)

Only a life lived with profit is long. (Udmurdsk.)

The life of a young man is with the people, the life of the people is with the Motherland. (Karakalpak)

Who has bad life, bad and death. (Abkhazian.)

Better a glorious death than a shameful life. (cargo.)

He who knows how to live will be able to die. (Tatar.)

And the rich and the gold shed tears of gold.

Folk wisdom of different nations about money

The topic of statements about the material values ​​of residents of different countries and generations largely depends on what kind of wealth they lived in. Each of the peoples of the world has a slightly different attitude to money. Somewhere they are put at the forefront, while others downplay the value.

The following colorful sayings are of particular cultural value:

  1. Jewish They are united by subtle humor and deep morality. In general, they are trying to convey to a person that happiness does not depend directly on the level of wealth, and only smart or cunning can earn.
  2. Japanese In the Land of the Rising Sun, the issue of money is taken quite seriously. Here they consider material wealth a reflection of the industriousness and mind of the person who earned it.
  3. Indian. Most of them boil down to the fact that not only the amount of wealth acquired determines the social status of the individual.
  4. GeorgianThese proverbs are saturated with respect for human qualities. They teach to avoid debt, not to envy and work hard.
  5. Spanish This temperamental people puts justice, honesty and hard work at the forefront. The essence of most Spanish proverbs comes down to the fact that wealth does not necessarily bring joy, but can create a lot of additional problems.
  6. Russians. Many of them are dedicated to the virtues of the poor person and promote intangible values.

Having become acquainted with the folklore expressions of the common people of any country, one can judge not only about its prosperity, but also about the mentality and lifestyle.

Jewish proverbs

If the problem can be solved for money, this is not a problem, it is a cost.

Money is not as good as without money.

If charity didn’t cost anything, everyone would be philanthropists.

Everyone complains about the lack of money, but about the lack of intelligence - no one.

Japanese proverbs

Vouch for money, never for a man.

With money and in hell you will not be lost.

Money clings to money.

He who is poor is foolish.

The owner of the golden mountain is also greedy.

Indian proverbs

Money is worshiped more than God.

Money, land, and woman breed enmity.

My mind and other people's wealth are always somewhat exaggerated.

Even in the city of treasures there are carriers of brushwood.

Shackles and gold are heavy.

Georgian proverbs

It is better to live in need, but to be human, than to live in prosperity, but to be a pig.

Wealth is a sin before God, poverty is before people.

Lie down without dinner, but you get up without debt.

It’s better to work for nothing than sitting for nothing.

Then the price of wealth is known when they gain, and the price of a friend - when they lose.

Spanish proverbs

It’s hard to live without prosperity.

The more income, the more hassle.

One olive is gold, the second is silver, and the third is colic in the rib.

He became a rich merchant - mother and father forgot.

A wide soul - not a penny in your pocket.

Russian proverbs

Without money, a dream is stronger.

To trade crazy is only money to lose.

Take care of bread for food, and money for trouble.

Where money is said, conscience is silent.

Money is not rye, and grow in winter; money and not ice, but melt in winter.

Other nations of the world

Money in the wallet of the disease will not drive out (Syrian)

Than to lend, it is better to lay aside in a corner. (Chuvash)

You will go further with money than with truth. (Latvian)

Do not look in other people's pockets, but take care of your own. (Ukrainian)

A good payer is the lord of someone else's wallet. (English)

Money comes in steps, and runs away at a gallop. (Italian)

Not stingy owns money, but money to them. (romanian)

Interesting Jewish proverbs about wealth

Most of the Jewish proverbs about money and wealth are saturated with sparkling humor and deep meaning. The bulk of them are united by a respectful attitude to money, fun of stupidity and poverty.

Among Jewish quotes, you can find statements on the following topics:

  1. Wealth and poverty.
  2. Mind and stupidity.
  3. Friendship and cooperation.
  4. Material and spiritual values.
  5. The relationship between people.
  6. Statements on the topic of religion and human faith.

The meaning of most Jewish winged expressions comes down to the fact that everyone should worry not only about material values, but also personal qualities and relationships with others.

Poverty from God, but filth not.

The poor are always liberals.

Beware of those who promise something for nothing. Moses Baruch

Piety, especially Jewish piety, reveres a small-small person, a small business, a small task, a small duty. Through this little religion, he knows the great. L. Beck

God first looks into our heart, and then into our brains.

God gave man two ears and one mouth so that he would listen more and speak less.

You will not get rich in debt.

Borrowed and lost a friend.

You get a friend for free, you need to buy an enemy.

Friendship is friendship, but pay for the goods.

A fool grows without rain.

Praise the fool, he rejoices.

A leaky bag is never heavy.

God protects the poor, at least from costly sins.

If the bazaar is cheap, spend all the money

If the Lord loved the poor, the poor would not be poor.

When there is money, then the fool seems smart.

He who shares does not deprive himself.

He who rows money does not get tired.

Instructive sayings for children

Popular proverbs and sayings about money are useful not only for an adult, but also for a young member of society. With their help, a child can play a first lesson in financial literacy and a clear guide to morality in a playful way. But it is worth considering that not all of these statements remained relevant in modern life realities.

Scientific and technological progress and a significant improvement in living standards in recent years dictate new values. The cult of material wealth is being replaced by a desire for spiritual growth, freedom of choice and self-expression.

Therefore, along with oral folk art of bygone years, it is useful for children to familiarize themselves with the opinions of their contemporaries.

With the help of quotes from the works and statements of outstanding personalities of our generation, children can learn such skills and values ​​as:

  • Respectful attitude to money.
  • Diligence and determination.
  • Planning and goal setting.
  • Responsible attitude to your financial obligations.
  • Prioritization in terms of material and spiritual values.

Each quote of an outstanding person is the advice received from an authoritative person. Is it worth it to use and how to apply it correctly, each child has the right to decide independently.

A wise person holds money in his head, but not in his heart.
Jonathan Swift

Wealth brings not modest wealth, but modest needs.
Epictetus

Every day is a bank account, and money on it is our time. There are no rich and poor, everyone has 24 hours.
Christopher Rice

How you meet defeats determines your success.
David Feherty

Moderation is already wealth.
Cicero (Cicero)

Justification makes a person poor.
Robert Kiyosaki

The best investment is in knowledge.
Benjamin Franklin

I'll tell you how to get rich on Wall Street: be careful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are careful.
Warren Buffett

In fact, we are drawn to do what is destined for us. And when we begin to do this, money is immediately found, the necessary doors open, we feel useful, and work seems like a game.
Julia Cameron

I never try to make money on the exchange itself. I buy shares, hoping that they can close the exchange the next day and then not open it for the next ten years.
Warren Buffett

Many people do not think about money until it ends. Others also act with time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Education will help to survive. Self-education will lead you to success.
Jim Rohn

Wealth is not an accumulation of material values. This is the ability to spend less than you earn, the ability to save and invest. You will not get rich until you understand it.
Dave Ramsey

Poor is not one who has little, but one who is always not enough.
Seneca

It is not the employer who pays the salary - he only manages the money. The client pays the salary.
Henry Ford

He who loses money loses a lot; one who loses a friend loses much more; he who loses faith loses everything.
Eleanor Roosevelt (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Happiness does not come down to owning money; it is the joy of work and accomplishment.
Franklin Roosevelt

Do not set money as a goal. You can succeed only in the business that you love. Go in this life to those things that you love, and do it so well that others cannot take their eyes off you.
Maya Angelou

Buy when the others sell, and hold until someone else wants to buy it. This is not just a slogan. This is the essence of a successful investment.
Paul Getty (J. Paul Getty)

Even if all economists are tied to each other, they will still never come to an agreement.
Bernard Shaw

How many millionaires do you know who have built their fortune on a percentage of the deposit? Here I am about the same.
Robert Allen

I got rich in a rather old-fashioned way: I was nice to a wealthy relative right before his death.
Malcolm Forbes

Innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower.
Steve Jobs

A true indicator of your wealth is what you will be worth if you lose all your money.
Unknown author (Anonymous)

Learn to save while you earn a little. You can do this when you start earning more.
Jack Benny

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Henry David Thoreau

An investor should always act as an investor, not as a speculator.
Benjamin Graham

I firmly believe in luck. And I noticed that the more I work, the more she smiles at me.
Thomas Jefferson

Either you will manage your money, or their absence will govern you.
Dave Ramsey

Investing should be like observing drying paint or growing grass. And if you want dynamics, take $ 800 and go to Las Vegas.
Paul Samuelson

Each time you borrow, you steal a piece of your own future.
Nathan W. Morris

Never spend money before you make money.
Thomas Jefferson

The stock market is full of people who know the price, but have no idea about value.
Phillip Fisher

Wealth does not belong to the one who owns it, but to the one who knows how to enjoy it.
Benjamin Franklin

If you do not value your time, others will not. Stop wasting your time and abilities. Start to value them and take money for them.
Kim Garst

The important thing is not how much money you earn, but how much money you have left, how they work for you, and how many generations you can provide them with.
Robert Kiyosaki

I did not lose. I just found 10,000 ways that don't work.
Thomas A. Edison

“Money just makes life more comfortable, but it does not replace life itself.”

“Money is time.”

George Gissing

“Money, of course, is despotic power, but at the same time, the highest equality, and this is all their main strength. Money compares all inequalities. ”

Fedor Dostoevsky

“Money is only a means. They will lead you to any goal, but they will not replace you at the helm. "

Ayn Rand

“Money is a sixth sense, without which the other five are inferior.”

Somerset Maugham

“Money, if any, is grass; if not, starvation.”

David Lawrence

“It's good to have money and possess things that can be bought for money. But at the same time, it’s also good to check yourself from time to time and make sure that you have not lost those things that you can’t buy for money. ”

George Horace Lorimer

“If money is your hope for independence, you will never become independent. The only real guarantee that a person can receive in this world is the stock of his knowledge, experience and opportunities. ”

Henry Ford

"People who believe that money can do everything, they themselves can do everything for money."

Jason Statham

"Sometimes money is too expensive for us."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People spend their health to make money, and then spend money to restore health. Thinking nervously about the future, they forget about the present, so they do not live in the present, nor for the sake of the future. They live as if they would never die, and when they die, they realize that they never lived. ”

Confucius

"For smart people, money is a means, for fools it is a goal."

Paul Decursel

“Money will not buy happiness to someone who does not know what he wants. Money will not indicate the goal to the one who chooses his path with his eyes closed. Money will not buy the mind of a fool, honor - a scoundrel, respect - a layman. If you try to surround yourself with money with those who are higher and smarter than you, in order to gain prestige, then in the end you will fall victim to those who are lower. "

Ayn Rand

"No wealth will make a bad person happy."

Plato

“When the forest and fields disappear, when the rivers turn into cesspool, when the last animal is caught, then people will probably guess that they don’t eat gold and platinum, and we call meaningless pieces of money.”

“Money is a good servant, but a bad master.”

Phineas Taylor Barnum

“Money either dominates its owner or serves him.”

Horace

“Of course you can buy a charming dog for money, but no money can make him happily wag his tail.”

Josh billings

“Money does not give happiness, but everyone wants to see for himself.”

Stefan Kiselevsky

“It's strange that there is money, but a dream remains a dream.”

Vladimir Nabokov

“Money is a way to subjugate a person completely.”

Roman Romanov

“Money never made a person happier, and never will. The more a person has, the more he wants. But instead of filling the vacuum, he creates it for himself. ”

Benjamin Franklin

“Empty pockets will never stop us from becoming what we want to be. Only empty heads and empty hearts can prevent this. ”

Norman Peel

“How mercantile you are, my friend. Remember: everything that you can buy for money is already cheap. ”

Bernard Show

“The money you possess is an instrument of freedom; those whom you pursue are instruments of slavery. ”

Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Wealth is like sea water, the more you drink, the more you want. The same applies to fame. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

"He is richer than all whose joys require less money."

Henry David Thoreau

“Wealth is a thing without which one can live happily. But well-being is a thing necessary for happiness. ”

Nikolay Chernyshevsky

"Mad, who in wealth will forget a friend."

Gregory the Theologian

"Satiety will be born of wealth, arrogance will be born of satiety."

Solon

"Greed for money, if it is insatiable, is much more painful than need, because the more desires grow, the more needs they generate."

Democritus

"A penny can obscure the brightest star if you keep it in front of the eye."

Sue Grafton

"Ah, if death could be bought
And we extend the days with gold
So it would make sense and kill life
To become rich. ”

Pierre de Ronsard

“Rich is the one who receives more than he spends; poor is the one whose spending exceeds income. ”
“The wealth of other people should not be envied: they purchased it at such a price that we cannot afford - they sacrificed peace, health, honor, and conscience for it. It’s too expensive - a deal would only bring us losses. ”

Jean de Labruyere

“Rich people are people who have money. And the wealthy are those who have both money and time. ”

Irv Grozbek

“Too many people spend money that they barely earned on things that they don’t need to impress people who they don’t like.”

Will rogers

“Money is like manure. If you distribute them, they bear fruit, but if you dump them into one pile, then they start to stink like hell. ”

James Baldwin (follower of Martin Luther King)

“Many famous businessmen, telling the story of their success, pronounce the same phrase:“ Money lay on the ground, they needed only to be raised. ” But for some reason none of them specifies how many times for this it was necessary to bend down. ”

“Most people are missing out on opportunities. Because they are dressed in overalls and seem to resemble work. ”

Thomas Edison (inventor and entrepreneur).

Meaning of the saying "Money loves an account"

Many peoples of the world have sayings about money, values ​​and wealth. But the most popular and controversial of them in translation into Russian sounds - "Money loves an account." We will understand what is meant by this saying and how it should be correctly understood.

Literally this statement can be taken as a call for a constant recount of their capital and the glorification of the cult of material values. But if you dig deeper, then in this expression it will turn out to consider a deeper meaning.

First of all, it comes down to the fact that you always need to consider and plan your income and expenses. This is the first and one of the key lessons of financial literacy. Without fulfilling this condition, it is impossible to achieve material independence and accumulate capital.

Paraphrasing this expression, we can say that it is always worth keeping a record: plan your income, expenses and investments.