Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Dietrich, Marlene

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Mohammed

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Wirt, W.

Maybe it would be better to acknowledge, like the Greeks, that a lot of behavior we call addiction is really a love of pleasure that carries the force of habit. We become addicted mostly because of the central issue in all self-control problems, which is the disproportionate value we place on short-term rewards.

Daniel Akst

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Spanish

It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb, French

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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

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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

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

13.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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

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

Astor, John Jacob

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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Channing, William Henry

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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

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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

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

Wall Street Journal

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

Proverb

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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

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

Proverb

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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

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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

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

Ovid

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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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Solon

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What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

36.

Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Wicker, John

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