Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

- Venning, R.

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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 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

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

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Carnegie, Andrew

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

11.

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

Ovid

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

Mohammed

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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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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He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Wirt, W.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Proverb

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Rohn, Jim

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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 slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Seneca

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

Seneca

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

45.

Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married

Wall Street Journal

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

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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

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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.