Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Chilo

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Seneca

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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, 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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

10.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

11.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

12.

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

Didion, Joan

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

14.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

17.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

18.

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

Socrates

19.

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

Solon

20.

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

Lucretius

21.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lippett, John P.

23.

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

25.

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

Wicker, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

30.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

31.

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

32.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

34.

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

35.

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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

39.

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

Proverb

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, American

42.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

43.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Seneca

49.

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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis