Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Mohammed

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

Wall Street Journal

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Lucretius

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Benjamin Franklin

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How much money is enough?

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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Bible

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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 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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Proverb, American

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

Seneca

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Ovid

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