Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Solon

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Rex Stout

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

Billings, Josh

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Seneca

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

Proverb

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

10.

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Lucretius

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

16.

How much money is enough?

17.

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

18.

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

Rodman, Frances

19.

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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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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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

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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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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Chilo

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Solon

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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.