Wealth
- Abolishing poverty in the 21st century must become a collective responsibility since human life is not safe in the rich nations if human despair travels in poor nations.--Mahub Ul Haq (quoted in The Impossible Will Take a While ed. by Loeb)
- Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away... To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.--G. K. Chesterton (A Miscellany of Men)
- As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.--Victor Hugo
- Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of Jesus that it is more blessed to give than to receive is based on the human truth that the more you give away in love, the more you are. It is not just for the sake of other people that Jesus tells us to give rather than get, but for our own sakes too.--Frederick Buechner
- The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.--Zeno
- Before we set our hearts too much upon any thing, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.--François de La Rochefoucald
- The biggest sin against the poor and the hungry is perhaps indifference, making believe we do not see, passing by on the other side of the street.--Raniero Cantalamessa (Beatitudes: Eight Steps to Happiness)
- Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver.--Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary)
- Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.--Benjamin Franklin
- Early to bed and early to rise - till you get enough money to do otherwise.--Unknown (Peter's Almanac)
- Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.--Dorothy L. Sayers ("The Other Six Deadly Sins" Creed or Chaos?)
- Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing.... The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their "Luck" arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.--Srully Blotnick
- Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.--Jim Rohn
- The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.--Sallust
- God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.--Austin O'Malley
- A great fortune is a great slavery.--Seneca
- The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.--C. C. Colton
- The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. --Benjamin Disraeli
- He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.--Benjamin Franklin
- He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.--Socrates
- He who doesn't find a little enough will find nothing enough.--Epicurus
- He who knows he has enough is rich.--Lao-tzu
- I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Ghandi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?--Albert Einstein
- I am aware there are books that instruct you on how to manipulate the market, stocks and people... they might even help you get money. But, let me caution you... when there is no spiritual growth... there is no spiritual strength... there is no lasting happiness... and, there is no real or lasting wealth.--Bob Proctor (Your Achievement Ezine - Issue No. 153)
- I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.--John Ruskin
- I hope that someone tells the offensive story of the Good Samaritan. For Jesus meant it to be offensive. It's not about a philanthropist with a troubled conscience who offers a handout. It's about a man who crosses the [social] line not to photograph the victim, but to tend him, accompany him and, having heard his experience, to redistribute his own wealth. It has always challenged me, that story, because it exalts personal contact over platitudinous theory. It says; if you're not prepared to be touched by the poor, don't bother to talk about poverty.--John Bell ("Thought for the Day," Jan. 15, 2015)
- I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.--Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
- If being wealthy is taken to mean having the means to satisfy one's every want, all but the very poor can become rich as thou at a single stroke of a magician's wand, simply by ceasing to want more than is really necessary for sustaining life. By being content with little and not giving a rap for what the neighbours [sic.] think, one can attain a very large measure of freedom, shedding care and worry in a trice.--John Blofeld
- If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.--Winston Churchill
- If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.--Dorothy Parker
- I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.--e.e. Cummings
- It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.--Gloria Steinem
- It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.--Charles Spurgeon
- It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.--Seneca
- It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.--Henry Ward Beecher
- It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.--Bertrand Russell
- It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.--Henry Ward Beecher
- It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.--Olga Korbut
- It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.--George Lorimer
- Jesus never says to the poor "come find the church," but he says to those of us in the church "go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned."--Tony Campolo
- The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.--Anatole France
- Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.--Sarah Bernhardt
- A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.--Sa'di (Gulistan)
- The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.--Pliny the Elder (23-79 A. D.)
- Make all you can. Save all you can. Give all you can.--John Wesley
- Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.--Henry Fielding
- A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.--Henry David Thoreau
- Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.--Charles Caleb Colton
- Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.--Thomas Jefferson
- Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.--Sydney J. Harris
- Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.--Margaret Halsey
- Money is a good servant, but a poor master.--Dominique Bouhours
- Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character.--Gary Ryan Blair (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)
- Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it's the you inside that counts.--Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
- Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.--Henry David Thoreau
- Money is the reward, but if it ever becomes the goal, you will lose sight of your dream and do things that make no one happy.--The Statler Brothers (Harold Reid, Phil Balsley, Jimmy Fortune, Dan Reid) (in Success Secrets of Super Achievers by Stovall)
- Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one.--Ben Franklin
- Money should never be separated from values. Detached from values it may indeed be the root of all evil. Linked effectively to social purpose it can be the root of opportunity.--Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.--Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Big Quotes)
- Most men worry about their own bellies and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried about our own souls and other people's bellies.--Yisroel Salanter
- The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.--Kahlil Gibran
- My goal in life is not to get rich, but to BE RICH – in faith, marriage, family and ministry.-–Wayne Cordeiro (Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion)
- My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.--J. Brotherton
- No man is rich enough to buy back his past.--Oscar Wilde
- Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.--Ellen Goodman
- Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.--Erich Fromm
- Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.--John Petit-Senn
- Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.--Jonathan Swift
- Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.--Olive Schreiner (Letters of Olive Scheiner)
- Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.--Cree Indian Proverb
- The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.--Eric Fromm
- The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one's birthright of membership in the great human family.--Arnold Toynbee
- The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.--Holbrook Jackson
- Probably no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.--Abraham Flexner
- The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.--Andrew Carnegie
- Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.--Geoffrey F. Abert
- Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.--William Hazlitt
- The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money ... they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.--Alan Watts
- A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.--W. C. Fields
- Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.--Mohammed
- Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.--Charles Caleb Colton (Lacon)
- There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants--more than anything else--to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are--and have always been.--Joseph Brooks
- There's nothing wrong with possessions; it's just that they have value to us only when we use them, engage them, and enjoy them. They're nouns that mean something only in conjunction with verbs. That's why wealth is so dangerous: if you're not careful you can easily end up with a garage full of nouns.--Rob Bell (Love Wins)
- The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.--Theodore Roosevelt
- Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.--Sir Thomas Browne
- Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine March 4, 2003)
- To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.--G. K. Chesterton ("The Paradise of Thieves" The Wisdom of Father Brown)
- To be poor in America was to be invisible, but not after this week, not after those images of the bedraggled masses at the Superdome, convention center and airport. No one can claim that the post-Reagan orthodoxy of low taxes and small government, which does wonders for the extremely rich, also inevitably does wonders for the extremely poor. What was that about a rising tide lifting all boats? What if you don't have a boat?--Eugene Robinson (The Washington Post)
- To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.--William Ellery Channing
- To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.--Akhenaton (fl. 1375 B.C.)
- To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.--Fanny Burney (Evelina)
- We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose.--Pope Francis
- We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog to defend our property. Poor people, of course, have nothing to defend and often share the little they have.
When people have all the material things they need, they seem not to need each other. They are self-sufficient. There is no interdependence. There is no love.--Jean Vanier
- Wealth justly gained is honorable. Wealth unjustly gained is disgraceful. Wealth kept for one's self is shameful.--Arthur Dobrin
- 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.--Sean O'Casey
- Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.-- Euripides
- The wealthy have nothing left except money.--George Ade
- When people have all the material things they need, they seem not to need each other. They are self-sufficient. There is no interdependence. There is no love. In a poor community, however, there is often a lot of mutual help and sharing of goods, as well as help from outside. Poverty can even become a cement of unity.--Jean Vanier (Community and Growth)
- When we find the LOVE in creation as expressed in the natural world around us, we are wealthy beyond words. One can be no richer and need not be. --J. Lloyd Ewart (Inspirational Images)
- You see, we need instruction on how to possess money without being possessed by money. We need help to learn how to own things without treasuring them. We need the discipline that will allow us to live simply while managing great wealth and power.--Richard Foster (The Challenge of the Disciplined Life)
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