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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Bible

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

Mohammed

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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 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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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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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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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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The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

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

Lucretius

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Italian

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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

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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Benjamin Franklin

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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

Socrates

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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

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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

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Ovid

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Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, American

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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 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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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 fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Bacon, Francis