Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Plenty makes dainty!

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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

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

Wicker, John

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

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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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

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

12.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Proverb

19.

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

20.

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

26.

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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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

29.

How much money is enough?

30.

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

31.

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

Rex Stout

33.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bogart, Humphrey

35.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Socrates

39.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

40.

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

Proverb

41.

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

42.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

43.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Lucretius

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