Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Venning, R.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Proverb, French

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

Socrates

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

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

14.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

15.

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

Bible

16.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

18.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

19.

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

Solon

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

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

Lippett, John P.

24.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

25.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

26.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

27.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

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

Bacon, Francis

33.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

34.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

35.

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

Astor, John Jacob

36.

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

37.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

39.

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.

40.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

41.

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

42.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

43.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

44.

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Rodman, Frances

45.

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