160+ Inspirational Sayings & Quotes On Money And Relationship

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You will find several quotes on money and relationships by several wise people across generations. While both money and relationships are equally important, people find it challenging to decide which is more important than the other, whether to splurge on their favorite goods to be happy or lead a minimalist life with their special person.

Choosing money alone cannot make you the richest person and give security, and choosing only relationships wouldn’t make you the happiest and content person either. Ideally, there should be a balance between the two. One without the other will not help us survive in this world.

Understanding the interplay between love and money is essential for navigating modern relationships. This post provides quotes and insights on how couples can maintain harmony while managing financial aspects together.

160+ Powerful Quotes On Money And Relationship

Here is a list of impactful quotes on money and relationships that will get you to think about the place money and relationships have in your life.

Money Vs. Love Quotes

Here are some money Vs. love quotes that will leave you with something to ponder over.

1. Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. – Kinky Friedman
2. Money can feed the body. Love will feed the soul. – Toni Payne
3. Money can’t buy love because it’s overpriced. – J. Cole
4. A simple ‘I love you’ means more than money. – Frank Sinatra
5. “Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.” —Graham Greene
6. Use money and love people. Don’t use people and love money. – Joseph Prince
7. A good woman wants your love, time, and attention. Not your money. –  Gift Ideas

8. The vast majority of Americans would not say that their God is Money – they’d say their God is Love. — Marianne Williamson
9. “Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.”--Khalil Gibran
10. They say that love is more important than money, have you ever tried paying your bills with a hug? — Nishan Panwar
11. “It is better in times of need to have a friend rather than money.” —Greek proverb
12. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. — Henry David Thoreau
13. You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. — Henny Youngman
14. “I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.”–Judy Garland
15. This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt. — Earl Wilson
16. “Money is either the best or the worst area of communication in our marriages.” —Larry Burkett
17. World peace can be achieved when, in each person, the power of love replaces the love of power. – Sri Chinmoy
18. Your hands may be full of money and your brain full of information but if your heart is empty, your life is very empty.–T.B. Joshua
19. Life is not all about money, it’s more about relationships. – Michael Kilpatrick
20. If you want to know how rich you are, find out how many things you have that money cannot buy. – Kushandwizdom
21. “Every girl would like to marry a rich husband. I did twice. But what divides girls into two groups is this question – do you first think of money and then love, or vice versa?” — Hedy Lamarr
22. Love your family more than your job, career, and money. These things cannot love you back.- Anonymous
23. “Money often costs too much.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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24. Love will carry you where the money would not. – Anonymous
25. “Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that’s a bonus, and if you don’t, you still won’t hate going to work.” – Jeff Foxworthy
26. Love, not money, is the basis for all happiness in life. Without love, nothing else in life has meaning. – Kaitlyn
27. Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.–T. Harv Eker

28. You can have all the money and power in the world, but it can’t buy you happiness, and it certainly can’t buy you love. – Alisa Goldman Johnson
29. “Money is numbers and numbers never end. If there’s ever an apocalypse and we have to start counting again, I don’t think we’ll ever get past ’10.’” – Jarod Kintz
30. A true person never gets impressed by money as he knows his love is priceless. – Anonymous
31. If you look for a rich partner, you can’t find love. – Anonymous
32. “Fake love is to money what fire is to hay, there only remain ash when it is over”― Bangambiki Habyarimana
33. Choosing money over love will always make you poor. – Anonymous
34. “Don’t look for a rich husband. Be a rich wife.”–Ishita Majumdar
35. No money can replace the good time spent with your loved ones. – Anonymous

Do remember

If your partner prioritizes money over love, often ignoring the other in the process, it might be time to rethink your choice.

36. The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different – Dalai Lama
37. You can become rich, you can become strong, you can take care of your loved ones and enjoy the fact it will be very difficult. ― Andrew Tate
38. I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around. – Li Na
39. Love doesn’t care how much money you have.– Rumer Willis
40. In the bank of life, you trade with love and not currency. – Thediaryforlife
41. Love makes strangers loved ones whereas money makes beloved ones strangers. – Abhishek Verma
42. “It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.” – Margaret Thatcher
43. I love money, but will money ever love me in return? – Mason Cooley
44. You are not what you do for money. You are what you do for love. – Catherine Louise Birmingham
45. Make some money but don’t let money buy you. – Joelle A
46. The more you spend money, the less you have, the more you spend love, the more you get in return. – Kushandwizdom
47. “I think I am able to distinguish between those who love me and those who love my money” — Ronaldo
48. “Cursed be he above all others Who’s enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter” – Anacreon
49. “Love is like money … hard to find, easy to lose.” — Ally Mbululo

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50. You are not wealthy enough until you have something that money cannot buy. – Anonymous
51. Money may not buy love, but fighting about it will bankrupt your relationship. – Moneynuggets
52. “What better thing to spend money on than love?” – Jamie Tartt
53. Rich people believe ‘I create my life’. Poor people believe ‘Life happens to me’. – T. Harv Eker
54. 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
55. I don’t care too much for money, for money can’t buy me love. – The Beatles
56. “Money has never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.” – Benjamin Franklin
57. If you love money, you cannot love others. – Anonymous
58. A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.  – Jonathan Swift
59. “Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course” — Helen Rowland
60. Whoever loves money will never have enough. –  Ecclesiastes 5:10
61. A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money and no love. –  W. C. Fields
62. Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. –  Woody Allen
63. “Men and women both have an equal capacity to make money, but they want money for different reasons. Men want money for power and women want it for comfort, and usually not their own comfort, but the comfort of others in their lives.” – Suze Orman
64. “Success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it’s prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship” — Freddie Mercury

Choosing Money Over Love Quotes

If you value money over love, then here are some quotes for you.

65. Marriage is a partnership, and couples can’t win with money unless they budget as a team. – Dave Ramsey
66. When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution. – D. H. Lawrence
67. Money buys everything, even true love. – Nelson Rodrigues
68. “Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of all blessings.” – Carl Sandburg
69. “Love of money is the disease which makes men most groveling and pitiful.” – Cassius Longinus
70. “Wealth does not make people happy, but positive increases in wealth may.”–Nassim Nicholas Taleb
71. “Money can’t buy you love, but it can get you some really good chocolate ginger biscuits” — Dylan Moran
72. “I’m in love with money. I talk to her seven days a week.” – Drake
73. Money can’t buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories. – Ronald Reagan
74. Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money–Gerald Brenan
75. “I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count and cry over them once a week” — Lord Byron
76. Love is not my cup of tea, I prefer money more than honey. – Platinum Motivational Publishing
77. Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.–Bo Derek
78. A relationship is like a bank. When you have deposited money, you can make a withdrawal. If you don’t have money, your check will bounce. – Pastor Albert Ocran
79. “I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.” – Steve Martin
80. Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money. – Jackie Mason

81. Lack of money is the root of all evil. – George Bernard Shaw
82. “Money doesn’t mind if we say it’s evil, it goes from strength to strength. It grows by itself, it doesn’t need anybody.” – Toni Morrison
83. “It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.” – George S. Clason
84. Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort. – Helen Gurley Brown
85. “Change brings huge opportunity, and money loves change, especially when the change increases in speed.” — Rob Moore
86. My philosophy has always been, do what you love, and the money will follow. – Amy Weber
87. Money may not buy happiness, but I’d rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus. — Francoise Sagan
88. “Money can’t buy happiness. But neither can poverty.” – Leo Rosten
89. I’m tired of love; I’m still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time. – Hilaire Belloc
90. The love of money grows as the money itself grows. – Juvenal

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91. He who marries for love without money has good nights and sorry days. — Ani Difranco
92. “Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it’s greedy or loving.” – Dan Millman
93. No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. – Cesare Pavese
94. Love lasteth as long as the money endureth. — William Caxton
95. While money doesn’t buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position. – Christopher Marlowe
96. Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery. – Daniel Kahneman
97. Though we say, love is something that knows no boundary and needs no agreement but money can do everything. – Ranu Das
98. You are lucky if you have found real love. You already are rich. – Anonymous
99. “It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.” – Albert Camus
100. “People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.” – Joan Rivers

Love Is More Important Than Money Quotes

When love is more important than money, turn to these awesome quotes.

101. I can exist without love, but I cannot exist without money. I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. – Eduardo
102. “I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money” — Mother Teresa
103. Money is good, love is wealth.— Douglas Horton
104. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.” —Oscar Wilde
105. “Do what you love and the money will follow.” –Marsha Sinetar
106. “Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”-– Oprah Winfrey

107. Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. – Walt Disney
108. “To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness – these are the gifts which money cannot buy” – Robert Louis Stevenson
109. I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absence of one with the other two… But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all. – Max Barry
110. “As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.” – Ioan Gruffudd
111. Don’t marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to make you happy. No rich man can buy that. – Staness Jonekos
112. “A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.” –Jonathan Swift
113. Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. –Mother Teresa
114. “In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.” —William Penn
115. You look at your bank account, and you see the currency of love and happiness is more important than the currency of money. –  Richie Sambora
116. Love is worth so much more than money. There are so many people who are filthy rich but have nobody to genuinely love them. Unconditional love is priceless. – Suzy Kassem
117. You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.” ― Dolly Parton
118. “I married for love and got a little money along with it” – Rose Kennedy
119. 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 of you. – Maya Angelou
120. I’d rather have a life of love than a life of riches. – Leo Buscaglia
121. Money … those who don’t have enough of it are only aware of what it can buy them. When you finally have enough of it, you become aware- acutely aware- of all the things it can’t buy … the really important things, like youth, health, love, peace of mind. –  F. Paul Wilson
122. “The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.” ― Charles Kuralt
123. There can be nothing without love. No money, no power. Love is very important. When you wake up in the morning, you need to know that somebody else is waking up, thinking of you. – Giorgio Armani
124. “Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn’t thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I’m just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn’t paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.” – Lionel Messi

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125. Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won’t buy. It bought me a house, but it won’t buy me a home. It would buy me a companion, but it won’t buy me a friend.”  – Zig Ziglar
126. “The Christmas tree is a symbol of love, not money. There’s a kind of glory to them when they’re all lit up that exceeds anything all the money in the world could buy.” – Andy Rooney
127. Love lives in the humblest of places. It doesn’t matter how big your house is, how nice your car is, how big your bank vault is… it only matters how much your heart can hold. –  Kate McGahan
128. “There is so much more to marriage than who makes the money. Some of the hardest parts don’t come with a paycheck.” —Michelle M. Pillow
129. I believe I can make all the money I’ve missed. But I can’t regain the time with … family. –Gucci Mane
130. “What better thing to spend money on than love?” – Jamie Tartt
131. You don’t need money or power or any other advantage to get by in this world; love is all you need. — Melchor Lim
132. “The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
133. I don’t need an overpowering, powerful, rich man to feel secure. I’d much rather have a man who is there for me, who really loves me, who is growing, who is real. — Bianca Jagger
134. ‘’With money you can buy a house, but not a home. With money you can buy a clock, but not time. With money you can buy a book, but not knowledge. With money you can buy blood, but not life. With money you can buy sex but not love. So what can you buy with money???”–Prem Rawat
135. It’s all about money or love. We know we need money, we know we have to get money, we know we have to hurt others to get money. But we don’t know until maybe it’s a little too late in life that love is the most important thing. Love, friendship, affection, bonhomie, whatever. Those are the only things that really count: to love and be loved. — Mel Brooks
136. “Love is everything. And that’s all we know about it.” –Emily Dickinson
137. ‘’Money can buy a lot of things, but it cannot get you true love’’–Unknown
138. “Love is the only treasure that multiplies when shared.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
139. ‘’The love in our lives is a true measure of the wealth we possess’’–Unknown
140. ‘’Without love, all the money one has is pointless’’–Unknown
141. ‘’The bounty of love shall exceed all materialistic beauty’’–Unknown
142. “All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love” — Steve Harvey
143. “I prize thy love more than whole mines of Gold. Or all the riches that the East doth hold. My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold repay” — Anne Bradstreet
144. “Cause love is more precious than gold It can’t be bought, no, never could be sold I got love enough to share That makes me a millionaire” — Chris Stapleton

145. Money is not needed for a rich life. You only need to have a loving family and good friends by your side.- Anonymous
146. “I still love things that you don’t even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around five of your friends and having a good time means so much more than going out and spending hundreds of dollars.” – Maria Sharapova
147. Before borrowing money from your loved ones, decide which you need most. – American Proverb
148. The richest man in the world is not the one who still has the first dollar he ever earned. It’s the man who still has his love alive. – Martha Mason
149. “See, a marriage needs love. And God. And a little money. That’s all. The rest you can deal with. It’s not about black or white.” —James McBride
150. Making money isn’t hard in itself… What’s hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to. –Carlos Ruiz Zafón
151. Money is number and numbers never end. If it takes money to search love, your search will never end. – Robert Nesta Marley
152. “Ultimately love is everything.” –M. Scott Peck
153. Money is not everything in life. Some believe no relationship is possible without money, but no amount of money can buy love or happiness. – Chitra Withane
154. A good woman is not interested in your money or status. What she wants from you is your love and commitment. – Sara
155. If you choose money over love, you will always be poor.–Matshona Dhilwayo
156. If you have money, you are affluent; if you have joy, you are wealthy; and if you have love, you are rich.–Matshona Dhilwayo
157. If you marry a monkey for his wealth, the money goes, but the monkey remain as is– Egyptian Proverb

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158. You cannot enjoy a good relationship with money unless you are willing to love it through thick and thin. – Creativemoney
159. “We were taught that things like grades, being good enough, money, & doing things the right way, are more important than love. … Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality & our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves & others, is the meaning of life.” –Marianne Williamson
160. A little thought of love is often worth more than a great deal of money.  – John Ruskin
161. “I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?” —Walt Whitman
162. Happiness is not based on money. And the best proof of that is our family–Christina Onassis
163. Let us increasingly demand raising assets of affection, graciousness, comprehension, of harmony. Money will come if we look for first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given – Mother Teresa.
164. Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.–Norman Vincent Peale

Practical Advice For Balancing Money And Love

Maintaining a healthy balance between money and love is crucial for a successful relationship. The following tips offer practical ways to ensure financial harmony without compromising emotional connection:

1. Schedule regular financial discussions to prevent misunderstandings.
2. Create a joint budget to maintain transparency.
3. Prioritize shared experiences over material possessions to strengthen emotional bonds.
4. Divide financial responsibilities based on strengths.
5. Set clear financial goals as a couple.

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