Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

I've been more bossed by my fortune than it has been bossed by me.

Lippett, John P.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Rex Stout

Daniel Akst

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

O'Casey, Sean

11.

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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There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Mother Teresa

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

Seneca

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bible

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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Rand, Ayn

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

Chilo

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

Mohammed

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

Lucretius

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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How much money is enough?

29.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

31.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

34.

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Socrates

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Rodman, Frances

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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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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