The notion of abundance represents a plentiful view of the world in relation to areas such as love, health and wellbeing, happiness, employment, and financial prosperity. My hope is that this list of abundance quotes will inspire readers to see the possibilities and potential in their own lives. Coming from thought leaders, successful entrepreneurs, and philosophers, they’re words from people with expertise and experience who have reflected on what it means to live abundantly.
The word abundance often conjures images of material wealth and financial prosperity. Indeed, success can mean a focus on the accumulation of goods and living a life of comfort. Abundance, therefore, is considered along the lines of capital ownership and financial freedom.
But it’s a concept that goes far beyond wealth and riches, having a more spiritual meaning too. An abundance life can be characterized by inner peace, happiness, and living in harmony with the Universe. In other words, it’s more about an attitude, or a state of mind.
A Mindset Shift
Quotes can often be that tiny catalyst for change – a mindset shift that allows you to start seeing the world differently. In the case of abundance, we’re talking about a move away from thinking fuelled by scarcity, lack, and limitation, to instead viewing life through a lens of gratitude and possibilities, ultimately leading to a more fulfilling life.
The concept of abundance also extends to generosity. By acknowledging abundance, we view the world as plentiful and things in it as accessible and achievable. With enough to go around, we can each afford to be generous to others. That includes giving but also wanting more for others, hoping that they too receive all that an abundant world has to offer.
Practicing Abundance
Embracing an abundant mindset can lead to significant changes. Here are some examples of some simple steps that can be taken towards living a more abundant life, in terms of both material wealth and the spiritual side.
- Adopt gratitude: Be mindful of the things you’re grateful for. Many practitioners advocate starting the day by practicing gratitude and writing these things down in a journal. The benefit here is to train the brain to focus on the positive and for those interested in manifestation and the Law of Attraction, expressing gratitude is a message to the Universe that can ultimately help to raise one’s vibration and attract more things to be grateful for.
- Visualize success: A powerful practice; spending time visualizing goals as already achieved can, among other things, improve self-belief and help to attract opportunities in the pursuit of those goals.
- Affirmations: Repeating affirmations daily can help to embed positive beliefs into the subconscious mind. In the case of abundance, overcoming self-limiting beliefs might involve an affirmation such as: “I am worthy of a prosperous and abundant life.”
- Generosity: Sharing time, knowledge, and resources, without wanting anything in return, is not just a kind act, it also puts us in the vibrational frequency of abundance. And reinforces our belief that there is plenty to go around.
Abundance Quotes
“See yourself living in abundance and you will attract it, it always works, it works every time with every person.” – Bob Proctor
“Like the air you breathe, abundance in all things is available to you. Your life will simply be as good as you allow it to be.” – Abraham-Hicks
“Abundance is not the result of unlimited opportunities or resources. It is manifested by limitless thinking, a courageous spirit, and a grateful, receptive heart.” – Anthon St. Maarten
“So many great people live lives absent of greatness because they live by default and not by design. They let themselves be limited by fears, anxieties, and pain from the past instead of embracing a limitless, abundant mindset.” – Lewis Howes
“Gratitude is the root of all transformation and abundance.” – Carol Starr Taylor
“By shifting certain habits in your life, you will allow abundance and prosperity to flow to you in ways that might seem impossible at this moment.” – Dean Graziosi
“Many people avoid taking action on their desires because they fear the potential for disappointment. When you believe there’s a limit to abundance and joy, you may avoid trying altogether. But when we shift from a world of lack to a world of abundance, we can remember that there’s more than enough to go around.” – Gabrielle Bernstein
“The universe provides abundantly when you’re in a state of gratefulness.” – Dr. Wayne Dyer
“Feelings of passion, pure bliss, reverence, optimism, trust and illumination indicate that your desire to manifest success and abundance has an extremely strong pulling power from the universal source to you.” – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
“Use the power of your conscious and subconscious mind to create a vibrational match for the abundance you desire and deserve.” – Jack Canfield
“We’ve got to put the fuel in before we can expect heat. Likewise, we’ve got to be of service first before we can expect money. Don’t concern yourself with the money. Be of service. Build. Work. Dream. Create. Do this and you’ll find there is no limit to the prosperity and abundance that will come to you.” – Earl Nightingale
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Not what we have, but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.” – Epicurus
“Thoughts of lack manifest as limitation. Thoughts of abundance manifest as success and happiness. Failure and success are but two ends of the same stick.” – Ernest Holmes
“The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking. To have life more abundant, we must think in limitless terms of abundance..” – Thomas Dreier
“You combine with what you vibrate to, so let us all now vibrate to success, happiness, and abundance..” – Florence Scovel Shinn
“Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.” – Bryant H. McGill
“You don’t create abundance. Abundance is always present. You create limitations.” – Jad Everett
“Gratitude is one of the strongest and most transformative states of being. It shifts your perspective from lack to abundance and allows you to focus on the good in your life, which in turn pulls more goodness into your reality.” – Jen Sincero
“If you develop an image of success, health, abundance, joy, peace, happiness, nothing on earth will be able to hold those things from you.” – Joel Osteen
“You have an inner prosperity guide: your intuition. When you begin to pay attention to it, it will lead you to this truth – abundance is your birthright.” – Lynn A. Robinson
“The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.” – Marianne Williamson
“Choose to have an abundance mentality for any area in life. There are more than enough resources to go around. Choose to believe in yourself and your abilities to create the future that you want.” – Michael Beckwith
“Let yourself feel happy about the abundance you will have, because it will come.” – Natalie Ledwell
“The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.” – Ramana Maharshi
“Abundance exists everywhere. You just need to see it, be aware of it, and believe it can become part of your life.” – Remez Sasson
“Gratitude builds a bridge to abundance.” – Roy Bennett
“Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself.” – Rumi
“An abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinions, possessions, or associations.” – Stephen R. Covey
“Creating abundance must start from within ourselves.” – Stephen Richards
“Always avoid thoughts that come from a scarcity mindset, that try to convince you there is not enough: Not enough money, not enough time, not enough jobs, not enough friends. Whenever you notice yourself falling into a scarcity mindset, try to do a 180-degree turn and change it to an abundance mindset.” – Dean Graziosi
“The Law of Attraction allows for infinite possibilities, infinite abundance & infinite joy. It knows no order of difficulty.” – Jack Canfield
“There is nothing wrong with wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life; and that desire is praise worthy.” – Wallace D. Wattles
“We must be convinced that abundance is the natural state of the Universe. To experience and accept abundance in our life, we must be convinced that as we conceive and believe, the Universe handles the details.” – Ernest Holmes
“Manifesting your desires requires an understanding of the universe’s abundance and inherently giving nature. If you ask from a position of fear or desperation, you are sending out your fear and desperation, and the universe, giving, reflecting, and non-judgmental as it is, will send those right back at you.” – Stephen Richards
“A desire for success is really your desire to enjoy a richer, fuller, and more abundant life.” – Victoria M. Gallagher
“Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.” – Steve Maraboli
“Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.” – Sue Thoele
“When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.” – Tony Robbins
“The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life, and that desire is praise worthy.” – Wallace D. Wattles
“Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.” – Wally Amos
“Abundance is not something we acquire, it is something we tune into.” – Wayne Dyer
“As you think of yourself living in abundance, you are powerfully and consciously determining your life through the law of attraction.” – Rhonda Byrne
“Abundance and prosperity begin with gratitude and appreciation.” – Anthon St. Maarten
“The way to create more joy in your life is by having an attitude of abundance.” – Lynn A. Robinson
“Wanting more for others puts us into an energy of abundance. Why? Because it feels good to want others to feels good. The practice of wishing for others to receive expands your own ability to receive, and this feeling of abundance will help you to attract more of what you want into your life. When you genuinely want others to be abundant, the Universe will respond in kind.” – Gabrielle Bernstein
“Will is your mental toughness. Without it, there’s no hope of ever living a life of abundance. Your will gives you resolve when everything around you seems to be crumbling and keeps you going even when your body thinks it can’t anymore.” – John Assaraf
“The truth is we live in an abundant world. Now, that’s not to say that there isn’t real struggle and hurting people who have genuinely fallen on hard times. And the truth remains that there is enough for all of us. All that remains is for you to choose whether you’ll be abundance-focused or consumed by the feeling of ‘impossible or lack’.” – Lisa Nichols
“If I can be impeccable with my word, why not you? Just this one agreement can change your whole life. Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love.” – Don Miguel Ruiz
“The Universe is a place of great abundance and we are all meant to be naturally prosperous, both in material and spiritual wealth, in a way that is balanced and harmonious with one another and with the earth that nourishes us.” – Shakti Gawain
“The normal desire for increased wealth is not an evil or a reprehensible thing; it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspirational.” – Wallace D. Wattles
“Fear and doubt often mask themselves as friends; they tell you they’re protecting you from inevitable disappointment, when in reality they are actively holding you back from unlocking the abundance of the Universe.” – Roxie Nafousi
“The Law of Abundance dictates there is an abundance of all things, because there’s a limitless supply of Universal Energy.” – Jennifer O’Neill
“Every change you have ever desired in your life has its inception from within. As within; so without. Beautify your inner universe and see the reflection of this abundance in your life experiences.” – Sanchita Pandey
“I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal and soon they’ll forget my number.” – Edith Armstrong
“Inspiration is a high-vibrational feeling that stems from an abundance mindset. Seeing something that you desire and feeling inspired by it says to the Universe, ‘I believe there is enough for everyone, and I believe that I can have it too.” – Roxie Nafousi
“The Law of Attraction may be working against you if you are focusing on lack and limitation, rather than abundance and freedom.” – Victoria M. Gallagher
“Unfortunately, far too many of us wait for too long to live abundantly. We think we need to achieve great wealth or accumulate important friends or somehow ‘become somebody’ before we start pursuing our dreams. My advice is to stop planning and start doing those things that are part of an abundant life.” – Lisa Nichols
“To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all areas of your life you need to be aware that you need to think healthy, wealthy, happy and successful thoughts twenty four hours a day and cancel all negative, destructive, fearful and unhappy thoughts. These two types of thought cannot coexist if you want to share in the abundance that surrounds us all.” – Sidney Madwed
“You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Overcome the prideful need to measure your worth by how much more successful you are than others, by operating from a core belief grounded in abundance.” – Richie Norton
“Be mindful of your self-talk. It is a conversation with the universe. You are a being, full of infinite possibilities! Focus your mind with positivity and you will have dictated the direction of your journey, your soul and your being, cascading in infinite abundance.” – Angie Karan
“The universe has more than enough business and wealth for everyone—way more than enough.” – David Cameron Gikandi
“Another miraculous transformation is the shift from a sales mentality to a service mentality. When we’re motivated by the desire to sell, we’re only looking out for ourselves. When we’re motivated by the desire to serve, we’re looking out for others. Since in the realm of consciousness, we only get to keep what we give away, a service mentality is a far more abundant attitude.” – Marianne Williamson
“Transformation takes place within us when we learn to be intentional and go from focusing on me to others, success to significance, limited to limitless, and scarcity to abundance.” – Farshad Asl
“We need to reclaim our ability to appreciate and enjoy the simple pleasures in life. Many of us in the industrialized world need to cultivate a simpler, more natural lifestyle. We need to realize that after our basic needs are met, the experience of abundance has more to do with expressing our creative gifts in satisfying ways, and learning to give and receive in a balanced way, that it does with extravagant consumerism.” – Shakti Gawain
“Abundance and joy is not something outside of you – it is not something you have to achieve – it is something that is you and which you therefore uncover.” – Halina Goldstein
“With self-awareness, self-compassion, and a commitment to personal growth, we can break free from negativity and build a more fulfilling and abundant life.” – Gabrielle Townsend
“You should be prosperous, well supplied and have abundance of good because it is your divine heritage. Your creator wants you that way.” – Catherine Ponder
“Prosperity is your birthright, and you hold the key to more abundance—in every area of your life—than you can possibly imagine.” – Rhonda Byrne
“Happiness is understanding that abundance is yours for the taking.” – Connie Podesta
“What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.” – Henry David Thoreau
“It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.” – Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
“In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” – Doris Day
“Your life is rich with possibility, and you are the only one who can discover the opportunities that will allow you to live your dreams. You must open your eyes to what can be, envision the life you want, and take the steps to get yourself to that place.” – Jason Harvey
“The obstacles in our path are not blocking us-they are redirecting us. Their purpose is not to interfere with our happiness; it is to point us toward new routes to our happiness, new possibilities, new doorways.” – Barbara De Angelis
“The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.” – Brian Tracy
“The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.” – Charles Dickens
“Today is unique! It has never occurred before, and it will never be repeated. At midnight it will end, quietly, suddenly, totally. Forever. But the hours between now and then are opportunities with eternal possibilities.” – Charles R. Swindoll
“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” – Jamie Paolinetti
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.” – Thomas Edison
“The universe is filled with infinite possibilities and potential, if we only trust in its power to guide us.” – Deepak Chopra
“The essence of this law is that you must think abundance; see abundance, feel abundance, believe abundance. Let no thought of limitation enter your mind.” – Robert Collier
“A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.” – Earl Nightingale
“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Abundance comes in many forms, do not limit your abundance by trying to control how it will flow, just know that it will come.” – Shelly Sullivan
“Abundance is about being rich, with or without money.” – Suze Orman
“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” – Lau Tzu
“In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility.” – Victoria Moran
“The opposite of scarcity is not abundance; the opposite of scarcity is simply enough.” – Brené Brown
“The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.” – William Mather Lewis
“In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of securing a more abundant life which does not simply consist in taking away from someone else.” – Karl Taylor Compton
“Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.” – William Arthur Ward
“If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.” – Mark Twain
“Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.” – W. Clement Stone
“You will get all you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar
“Giving is the secret of abundance.” – Sivananda