Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Venning, R.

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

Proverb, American

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

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Rex Stout

The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor.

Carnegie, Andrew

10.

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

Ovid

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Proverb, Spanish

18.

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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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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It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Billings, Josh

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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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Seneca

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

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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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

28.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

29.

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 fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Bacon, Francis

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Bible

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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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How much money is enough?

43.

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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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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