Wealth Quotes

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?

Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

The life of Gautama Buddha illustrates the power of service, compassion and, most importantly, renunciation. He was convinced that material wealth is not the sole goal.

We have an exceptional natural wealth that is environmentally friendly.

So many people have so many problems. When you think that health is wealth, you're so grateful just to be normal, more or less. Aren't you?

You are in a position to create wealth not only for yourself but for your children and your children's children.

The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.

Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves.

Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.

The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.

Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.

Indeed we do have an entitlement problem: some feel so entitled to power & wealth that they're willing to undermine our economy and our democracy.

Verily, affluence brings anxiety!

Thirst of wealth no quiet knows, But near the death-bed fierce grows.

Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

You can tell if people are following Jesus, because they are fedding the poor, sharing their wealth, and trying to get everyone medical insurance.

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both.

Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).

Most people who have wealth came from nothing or their parents came from nothing. And this idea that anyone can grow wealth is central to what we do.

Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group.

There's a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous wealth and a lot of others have no security.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

The Republican establishment, the mainstream corporate financial wealth, is getting to a point where it can't control the base it's mobilized.

Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.

Wealth is a responsibility and the sharing of it a way of life.

Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what we think will make us happy.

But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.

What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?

Generosity is more charitable than wealth.

And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.

People who lack material wealth, who are poor, won't be very happy. They will be obsessed with meeting their bills at pay day. And people who have an abundance of material goods are often not happy.

Something that could bring you wealth and fame could also be your end, your undoing.

Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have.

Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.

I would like to say something just about the Mexican people. It is a population that has a wealth, such great wealth, a people that surprises.

Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another.

Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.

There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have.

Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous

To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles.