Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Rohn, Jim

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

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

10.

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

Oprah Winfrey

11.

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

Socrates

12.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

13.

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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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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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

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

Proverb

17.

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

Lippett, John P.

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

21.

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Rodman, Frances

22.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

23.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

24.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

25.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

27.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

28.

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

Wall Street Journal

30.

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

Seneca

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

33.

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

Proverb, French

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

Solon

38.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mohammed

44.

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

Ovid

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