Quotes with wealth

  • Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
  • Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.
  • When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant you didn't come from anywhere else in Iowa. By Iowa standards, Des Moines is a mecca of cosmopolitanism, a dynamic hub of wealth and education...
  • 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.
  • We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.
  • Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
  • Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
  • Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
  • The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly veneration of wealth are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined.
  • Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil. Shame and woe to use, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman run away.
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  • John Howe Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
    John Howe
    Canadian-French illustrator
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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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  • Andrew Young 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.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
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  • Socrates Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Controlled time is our true wealth.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
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  • Aeschylus For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Socrates He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Andrew Young I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Aristotle It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Benjamin Franklin The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Jim Rohn Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Samuel Johnson A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Robert Cecil A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
    Robert Cecil
    English statesman (1563 - 1612)
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  • John Wooden Ability is a poor man's wealth.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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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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