Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Erasmus, Desiderius

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Solon

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Rodman, Frances

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Bible

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

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

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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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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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.

Proverb, Italian

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Lucretius

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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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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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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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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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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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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

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Seneca

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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.