Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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

Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rockefeller, John D.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Solon

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Seneca

12.

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

Billings, Josh

13.

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

Mohammed

15.

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

Wall Street Journal

16.

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

Proverb

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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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

21.

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

Lucretius

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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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

29.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 product of man's capacity to think.

Rand, Ayn

39.

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

40.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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