Motivational Quotes

Wealth

No just person ever became quickly rich.

- Menander of Athens

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Bible

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

Wall Street Journal

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

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Chilo

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

Proverb

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

How much money is enough?

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

10.

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

Venning, R.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Seneca

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

Rex Stout

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

20.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Socrates

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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Proverb, Italian

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

30.

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

31.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Elizabeth Aston

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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

34.

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

Proverb

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

Seneca

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Solon

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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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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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

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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

Lippett, John P.

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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.

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

Proverb, American

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Rivarol, Antoine

49.

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

Benjamin Franklin