Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Peter, Laurence J.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

Wicker, John

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

Proverb

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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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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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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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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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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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Solon

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

Proverb, Italian

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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

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

Socrates

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Rex Stout

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

Benjamin Franklin