Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Lucretius

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Ovid

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

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

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

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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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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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

13.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, American

28.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Wicker, John

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

35.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Seneca

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

Young, Andrew

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Solon

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Controlled time is our true wealth.