Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bible

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

Ovid

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

Seneca

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

10.

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

11.

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

Rodman, Frances

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb, French

15.

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

16.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

17.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

18.

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

Rand, Ayn

19.

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

Wicker, John

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

21.

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

22.

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

Billings, Josh

23.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

24.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

25.

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

Rex Stout

27.

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

Solon

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

32.

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

Proverb, Italian

33.

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

34.

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

Bacon, Francis

35.

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

36.

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

Chilo

37.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

38.

How much money is enough?

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, American

42.

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

Elizabeth Aston

43.

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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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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

46.

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

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.