Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Proverb

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Rex Stout

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Billings, Josh

10.

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

Socrates

11.

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

12.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

13.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

18.

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

Elizabeth Aston

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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

Solon

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

Ovid

24.

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

25.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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How much money is enough?

27.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Lucretius

31.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Dietrich, Marlene

32.

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

33.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

34.

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

Mohammed

35.

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

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

41.

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

Proverb, American

42.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

43.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

44.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

46.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

47.

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

Proverb, Italian

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin