Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

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

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

Wicker, John

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

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Yiddish

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

12.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

13.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

14.

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

Socrates

18.

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

Lucretius

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Proverb, Spanish

23.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

24.

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

25.

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

Mohammed

26.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

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

Benjamin Franklin

31.

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

Mizner, Wilson

32.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

33.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

34.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

35.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Ovid

37.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

39.

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

40.

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

41.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

42.

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

43.

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

Bacon, Francis

44.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

45.

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

Seneca

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Proverb, American