Let’s talk about money mantras and inspiration. These are things that ring out in your brain when you are choosing to spend your money in a particular moment or motivational quotes to keep you on track as you are setting your money mindset. Putting these quotes into a vision board, on your mirror to read every morning, on your phone’s screensaver, on your refrigerator, taped to your debit/credit card, or anywhere else that will help you remember your money intentions can go a long way to making you succeed in this area of your life. Managing your money is very similar to managing your nutrition or your exercise regime….inspiration helps!
Here are some of our favorite quotes and mantras from famous financial brains and some lesser-known ones:
- Do not save what is left after spending but spend what is left after saving. ~Warren Buffett
- Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. ~Benjamin Franklin
- Too many people spend money they earned…to buy things they don’t want…to impress people that they don’t like. ~Will Rogers
- No one has ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that’s abandoned by February. ~Suze Orman
- Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most. ~Abraham Lincoln
- You might get 85 years on this planet – don’t spend 65 paying off a lifestyle you can’t afford. ~Cait Flanders
- People who live far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles can’t fathom. ~Naval Ravikant
- We don’t buy things with money. We buy them with hours from our lives. ~Unknown
- The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. ~Henry David Thoreau
- Dave Ramsey is a personal finance personality, radio show host, author, and businessman. He is incredibly prolific and has too many great quips to choose just one to be inspired by, so here are several to select your inspiration from:
- A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.
- If you will make the sacrifices now that most people aren’t willing to make, later on, you will be able to live as those folks will never be able to live.
- We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like.
- Those who don’t manage their money will always work for those who do.
- The decision to go into debt alters the course and condition of your life. You no longer own it. You are owned.
- Don’t take money advice from people who don’t have a plan. If your broke friends are making fun of you, you are on the right track.
- You can reach financial peace, but it takes time and effort. Discipline understands that getting rich quick is a joke.
Choices of mantras/affirmations to repeat every day:
- Debt is a thing of my past.
- I deserve to be confident about my finances.
- I am worthy of financial security and all that this brings to me.
- I am focused on achieving money happiness.
- I attract wealth and abundance.
- I am connected to the universal supply of money.
- I deserve to be financially free.
- I am a magnet for financial blessings.
- I am the master of my abundance.
- I am focused on becoming financially secure so I can forget when it’s payday.
- I deserve the money I desire.
- I can be both a good person and make a lot of money.
As Dave Ramsey would say, “Financial winners don’t run sprints, they run marathons. They don’t rush. They do it step by step over time.” Incorporate some of this inspiration into your daily routine and you will see growth in your mindset and your personal financial statement!
