Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Lucretius

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

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.

Bible

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

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

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

Mohammed

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Proverb

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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Rand, Ayn

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Solon

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

32.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Wall Street Journal

34.

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

Ovid

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Seneca

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

Seneca

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

Astor, John Jacob

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rohn, Jim

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]