Motivational Quotes

Wealth

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. [Matthew 6:20]

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Best Quotes about Wealth

1.

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

2.

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

Young, Andrew

3.

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

Wilde, Oscar

4.

A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny.

Proverb, Yiddish

5.

There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.

Mizner, Wilson

6.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

7.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Roosevelt, Theodore

8.

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

9.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Solon

10.

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration.

Rohn, Jim

11.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Rodman, Frances

13.

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

Ruskin, John

14.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Carnegie, Andrew

15.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

16.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Bacon, Francis

17.

How much money is enough?

18.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Erasmus, Desiderius

19.

A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.

Proverb, Spanish

20.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

21.

Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married

Wall Street Journal

22.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

23.

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Lucretius

24.

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. [Matthew 6:20]

Bible

25.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Dietrich, Marlene

26.

Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.

Proverb, Italian

27.

Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.

Melbourne, Lord

28.

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

Seneca

30.

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

31.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

32.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

33.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

Mohammed

34.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Carnegie, Andrew

35.

Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.

Bible

36.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

Channing, William Henry

37.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Seneca

38.

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

Ovid

41.

The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.

Budgell, Eustace

42.

A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.

Proverb

43.

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Socrates

44.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

45.

Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

46.

Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

Young, Andrew

47.

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

Cocteau, Jean

48.

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Billings, Josh

49.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

50.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.