Material Wealth Quotes - Page 2

• See to it, night and day, that you pray for your children. Then you will leave them a great legacy of answers to prayer, which will follow them all the days of their life. Then you may calmly and with a good conscience depart from them, even though you may not leave them a great deal of material wealth.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Children, Night

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• Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Ocean, Gun, Two

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• 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.

  George A. Smith

  Heart, Satisfaction, Sullen

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• In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.

  Alfred Adler

  Country, Civilization, People

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• 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.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Compassion, Goal

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• Yet even the rich have their own kind of suffering, anxiety, doubt, and fear. So in many cases, wealthy people aren't happy! And once those with material wealth encounter small difficulties, their amount of mental suffering is sometimes bigger than it is for those who have faced such difficulties every day.

  Dalai Lama

  People, Anxiety, Doubt

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the poverty-stricken segments of the world up to a decent living standard, without recourse to war or punitive action against those already in material comfort; to provide for a maturing civilization the basic energy vital to its survival.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  War, Space, Civilization

  "The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space". Book by Gerard K. O'Neill, 1976.

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• If you're an adult and still think material wealth leads to happiness, might I suggest not being a moron.

  Dov Davidoff

  Happiness, Thinking, Adults

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Feb 21, 2012

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• I think China's view of freedom has to do with material wealth and modernity, and the Dalai's Lama view of freedom is liberation in the Buddhist sense, which is freedom from ignorance and freedom from suffering.

  Pico Iyer

  Buddhist, Ignorance, Thinking

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a better quality of life is undeniably needed, but even for the richest nations where the cornucopia of material wealth adds little to happiness and is beginning to threaten the foundations of our wellbeing.

  Tim Jackson

  Country, Growth, Quality

  Tim Jackson (2016). “Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow”, p.21, Taylor & Francis

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• For Christians ultimate reality is and can only be a personal, sovereign, holy, and loving God. But even some Christians, under extra-biblical and even anti-Christian cultural influences read the Bible as pointing to something not ultimate, such as material wealth, health, happiness, power, etc.

  Roger E. Olson

  Christian, Biblical, Reality

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Politicians learned hundreds of years ago that people who had little material wealth were incredibly jealous of those who had more than they did. This deep-seated envy was ripe for exploitation - and the exploitation has been running rampant for generations.

  Neal Boortz

  Running, Jealous, Years

  Neal Boortz (1998). “The Terrible Truth About Liberals”, p.123, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Generations, Machines, Wealth

  Jeremy Rifkin (2011). “The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World”, p.269, Macmillan

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• Seek not material wealth, seek the Lord who owns it all

  Shri Radhe Maa

  Wealth, Lord, Materials

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• In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves a shallow legacy. In the end, we will be judged by other standards.

  Cesar Chavez

  Commitment, Legacy, World

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Home, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.241, University of Georgia Press

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• Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.

  Laozi

  Self, Achievement, Greed

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• At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material wealth acquired, or power and prestige, but rather on the basis of what you have become as persons and what you are in conduct and character.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Character, Degrees, Diploma

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• When you read Marx (or Jesus) this way, you come to see that real wealth is not material wealth and real poverty is not just the lack of food, shelter, and clothing. Real poverty is the belief that the purpose of life is acquiring wealth and owning things. Real wealth is not the possession of property but the recognition that our deepest need, as human beings, is to keep developing our natural and acquired powers to relate to other human beings.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Jesus, Real, Needs

  Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige (2011). “The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century”, p.60, Univ of California Press

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• Paradoxical as it may seem, men and women who are free to pursue individualism and material wealth turn out to be the most compassionate of all.

  Lawrence B. Lindsey

  Men, Compassion, May

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• Dream big dreams! Others may deprive you of your material wealth and cheat you in a thousand ways, but no man can deprive you of the control and use of your imagination. Men may deal with you unfairly, as men often do; they may deprive you of your liberty; but they cannot take from you the privilege of using your imagination. In your imagination you always win!

  Jesse Jackson

  Dream, Winning, Men

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• Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.

  Karl Marx

  Mother, Father, Use

  Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.227, Hackett Publishing

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• Giving material goods is one form of generosity, but one can extend an attitude of generosity into all one's behavior. Being kind, attentive, and honest in dealing with others, offering praise where it is due, giving comfort and advice where they are needed, and simply sharing one's time with someone - all these are forms of generosity, and they do not require any particular level of material wealth.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Offering, Generosity

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• Material wealth is either a window through which we see God or a mirror in which we see ourselves.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Mirrors, Wealth, Window

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2015). “Heirs of the King: Living the Beatitudes”, p.33, Discovery House

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• I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth.

  Paul Robeson

  Justice, Diversity, Achievement

  Paul Robeson (1998). “Here I Stand”, p.35, Beacon Press

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