Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Proverb

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

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

15.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

16.

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

Proverb, American

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Solon

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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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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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How much money is enough?

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

Rohn, Jim

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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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

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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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

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

Mohammed

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Rand, Ayn

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

45.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Rex Stout