Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Wealth

1.

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

Mohammed

2.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

3.

How much money is enough?

4.

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

5.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

6.

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

Proverb

7.

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

Seneca

8.

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

Proverb, French

9.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

10.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Solon

13.

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

Rohn, Jim

14.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

15.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Mizner, Wilson

19.

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

Benjamin Franklin

20.

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

Cocteau, Jean

21.

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

22.

A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.

Astor, John Jacob

23.

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

Lucretius

24.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

25.

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

26.

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

27.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

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

29.

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

Socrates

30.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

32.

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

33.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

34.

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

35.

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

Venning, R.

36.

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Bogart, Humphrey

37.

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

Elizabeth Aston

38.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

39.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

40.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

42.

After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.

Proverb, American

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

46.

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

Billings, Josh

47.

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

Lippett, John P.

48.

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