Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Lucretius

Best Quotes about Wealth

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

Rivarol, Antoine

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Bible

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

Proverb, American

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

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

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.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

10.

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

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

12.

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

13.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

14.

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

15.

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

Billings, Josh

16.

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

17.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

18.

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

19.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

21.

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

Chilo

22.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

23.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

24.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

25.

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

Seneca

26.

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

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

30.

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Bogart, Humphrey

31.

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

32.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

33.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

34.

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

Venning, R.

35.

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

Rand, Ayn

36.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, French

44.

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

45.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

47.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

48.

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