Riches Quotes

• Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

  Horace Greeley

  Wisdom, Character, Wings

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• Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

  Doris Day

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Friendship, Success

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• Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Money, Real

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• There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

  Billy Graham

  Inspirational, Life, Men

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• Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Life, New Beginnings

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Think & Grow Rich”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

  Robert Collier

  Money, Creativity, Ideas

  Robert Collier (2012). “The Secret of the Ages”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Money, Time

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 26, 2016

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• The marvelous thing about spiritual wealth is that when we take our part in that, everyone else is blessed; whereas if we refused to be partakers, we hinder others from entering into the riches of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Blessed, Entering

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.100, Discovery House

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• Riches begin in the form of thought.

  Napoleon Hill

  Form

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.57, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

  Alexander Pope

  Money, People, Giving

  Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.236

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• Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

  B. C. Forbes

  Business, Real, Possessed

  B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.3, Lulu.com

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• He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Happy, Teacher

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.48

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• Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Mean, Literature

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• Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and desire; nor can anything restrain or regulate the love of money but a sense of honor and virtue, which, if it be not nearly equal at all times, will naturally abound most in ages of knowledge and refinement.

  David Hume

  Men, Honor, Age

  David Hume (1809). “Essays and treatises on several subjects in two volumes: Essays, moral, political, and literacy”, p.293

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• Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

  Gamaliel Bailey

  Men, Sun, Use

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• If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Other Worlds, Poor Richard, Ifs

  Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2007). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.256, Yale University Press

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• Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.

  Pierre Charron

  Heart, House, May

  Pierre Charron (1707). “Of wisdom: Three books. Written originally in French, by the Sieur de Charron. With an account of the author. Made English by George Stanhope, ...”

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• Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Funny, Motivational Sports, Money

  "Schwarzenegger elected governor, Oct. 7, 2003" by Andrew Glass, www.politico.com. October 7, 2009.

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• The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

  Martin Luther

  God, Pride, World

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• Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Money, Wealth, End Of Life

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Play, Consuming

  Izaak Walton (1853). “The Complete Angler ... Edited by James Rennie. With illustrations and a portrait”, p.234

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• Riches are well, if gotten well and spent well.

  Vespasian

  Wells, Ifs

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• Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.

  Plutarch

  Hurtful

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