What Is Wealth Quotes

It is my children who have made all this possible. My children are my wealth; they are my strength.

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth.

Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.

I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance, says Jesus. This is where true wealth is found, not in material things!

Learn to forgive fully and completely. If you want health, wealth, and happiness, you can't afford the luxury of lugging around all those unforgiven, unforgotten past events. Let them go.

The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.

There is not a line in 'The Wealth of Nations' that is not still applicable to this day.

They abandon the Ambrosial Nectar and turn to poison, they earn poison, and poison is their only wealth.

Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.

Income inequality matters more on a day-to-day basis. Wealth matters more for political influence.

It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth, the more wealth we shall receive.

When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion.

The truth is more important to me than anything - my personal wealth or health or any of these things. I think that it's not so difficult for me to say what I'm saying.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.

Wealth for its own sake is an empty shell. Wealth that includes making other people's lives better will reward you even more than the beautiful mansion you live in.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy.

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

Being wealthy when no one else is, is like being the only one at the party with a drink.

Chavez's oil is unimportant for Bolivia... We are not dependent on Venezuela. We complement each other. Venezuela shares its wealth with other countries, but that doesn't make us subordinate.

The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful.

I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.

Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.

Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.

Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune.

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

It's appalling that there should be hunger anywhere, but particularly in a country like America, where there is also such great wealth.

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.

People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.

Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.

Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.

Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers of concentration . They're relatively immune to the lures of wealth and fame.

So they, who climb to wealth, forget The friends in darker fortunes tried. I copied them--but I regret That I should ape the ways of pride.

Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.

Where the army is, prices are high; when prices rise the wealth of the people is exhausted.

Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.

Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.

Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You've eaten Gotham's wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on...none of you are safe.

There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.