Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

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

Proverb, Italian

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bible

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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

10.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

11.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

12.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

13.

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

Lucretius

14.

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

Seneca

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

Dietrich, Marlene

17.

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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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

24.

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

Ovid

25.

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

Rex Stout

26.

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

Proverb

29.

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

30.

How much money is enough?

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

Wicker, John

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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Mohammed

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

Socrates

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

Elizabeth Aston

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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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Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration.

Rohn, Jim

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Chilo

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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