Modest Lifestyle Quotes

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.

Everyone was poor. We were satisfied with a life that was simple and humble. We were a peaceful, open people.

However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.

I've had an amazing career and amazing blessings. But I'm an everyday person, and I have lived an everyday life, and I drive an everyday car.

Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it's the you inside that counts.

I don't have big time celebrity friends - I'm just a guy.

I'm a pretty boring guy. Compared to Ashton Kutcher, I live a really boring existence.

I haven't gone hillbilly rich, where you spend everything you have.

I have a very tiny house in Burbank. I drive an 8-year-old car. I'm gonna drive it into the ground. I enjoy what I enjoy.

I'm humble, because I live quite humbly.

No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.

My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.

It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.

I mean, I'm humble... to me, I'm just a regular cat from Oakland, California.

The ladies men admire, I've heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light, They'd rather stay at home at night. They do not keep awake 'till three, Nor read erotic poetry. They never sanction the impure, Nor recognize an overture. They shrink from powders and from paints... So far I've had no complaints.

Chinese people like to do things with a low profile; they do not like to expose their wealth.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.

I do live a simple existence.

I am a low-key girl from a middle-class family of a small village.

I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door. And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those trees.

I love my nice things, but I'm still the Welsh family girl.

I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture.