Quotes with riches

  • You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.
  • Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
  • So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else.
  • The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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  • Napoleon Hill All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Bayard Taylor By Wisdom wealth is won; But riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Horace Greeley Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
    Horace Greeley
    American editor (1811 - 1872)
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  • Sun Tzu If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Richard Burton A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
    Richard Burton
    Welsh actor (1925 - 1984)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Robert Collier All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Jean de la Bruyère As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Francis Bacon Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • John Ray Children are poor men's riches.
    John Ray
    English naturalist (1627 - 1705)
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  • Confucius Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Claude Lévi-Strauss Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    French anthropologist (1908 - 2009)
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  • Mother Teresa Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Austin O'Malley Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • John Locke Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Seneca Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Edmund Burke Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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