Motivational Quotes

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

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

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Bacon, Francis

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Proverb

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Mohammed

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

11.

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

12.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

13.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

15.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

18.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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

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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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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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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

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How much money is enough?

25.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

26.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Lucretius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

35.

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

Proverb

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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 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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Ovid

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

Socrates

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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

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

Bible

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

Solon

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

Dietrich, Marlene