Motivational Quotes

Wealth

For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Wealth

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

You may have tangible wealth untold, caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you could never be; I know someone who told stories to me.

Maus, Cynthia Pearl

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Venning, R.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

Peter, Laurence J.

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

10.

This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

11.

The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor.

Carnegie, Andrew

12.

For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.

Butler, Samuel

13.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Cervantes, Miguel De

14.

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

15.

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

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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

17.

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

18.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

19.

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

Proverb, Italian

20.

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

21.

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

Billings, Josh

22.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

23.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

24.

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

Proverb

25.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

Rockefeller, John D.

26.

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

27.

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

Mizner, Wilson

28.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

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

Ovid

30.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

31.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Bible

33.

Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

Wicker, John

34.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

35.

After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.

Proverb, American

36.

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

Seneca

37.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

Oprah Winfrey

39.

As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.

Proverb

40.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

41.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

42.

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

Bacon, Francis

43.

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

Rodman, Frances

44.

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

Proverb, Spanish

45.

The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

Solon

47.

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

Defoe, Daniel

48.

A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.

Astor, John Jacob

49.

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

Lucretius

50.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens