Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

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

Rex Stout

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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Astor, John Jacob

14.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mohammed

19.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

20.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Socrates

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Yiddish

27.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

29.

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

Lucretius

30.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Ovid

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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

36.

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

Rand, Ayn

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How much money is enough?

38.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, American

48.

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

Dietrich, Marlene