Wealth Quotes - Page 19

• Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Cutting, Giving, Pleasure

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• I humbly thank the gods benign, For all the blessings that are mine... The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads an opal canopy. Home-bound, the drifting cloud-crafts rest Where sunset ambers all the west; Soft o'er the poppy-fields of sleep, The drowsy winds of dreamland creep. What idle things are wealth and fame Beside the treasures one could name!

  Robert Loveman

  Gratitude, Morning, Sunset

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• Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

  Horace

  Greed, Care, Fortune

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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• All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

  Horace

  Names, Heaven, Earth

  Horace (1963). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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• Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  World, Claims, Involvement

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.400, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.

  Winston Churchill

  Moving, Animal, Pursuit Of Happiness

  Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann

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• The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Disappointment, Loss, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Compensation and Self-Reliance”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Grief, Despair, Misery

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• Imagine if your success in life is determined only by your guts, your hard work, and your willpower, and not by the wealth of your parents. I think it'll be a much more interesting world. I think this could change the way the planet is run.

  Andrew Ng

  Running, Hard Work, Thinking

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• Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman.

  Johan Norberg

  Cherish, Proof, Profit

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• We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

  Eric Hoffer

  Winning, Generosity, Weakness

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• Man is a luxury-loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.

  Eric Hoffer

  Animal, Men, Play

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 28, 1973.

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• Money...buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors.... The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Wall, Silence, House

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• Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Errors, Mind, Needs

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (185?). “The Poetical Works of Henry W. Longfellow”, p.450

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• Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Passion, Men, Riches

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy in America”, p.278

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• Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Past, Vices, Energy

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XI, 1840.

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• He that is rich is wise.

  Daniel Defoe

  Wise, Rich

  Daniel Defoe (1840). “A System of Magic”, p.19

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• WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT:
  Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. How to reach that happy condition? Two ways

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Two, Desire

  Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.353, Big Earth Publishing

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• Your wealth of experience makes you rich. Spend it on hurt people. They need it so badly.

  Beth Moore

  Hurt, People, Needs

  Beth Moore (2009). “Get Out of That Pit: Straight Talk about God's Deliverance”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.

  Mary E. DeMuth

  Goal, Culture, Breathe

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• The values and the relationships of the people I love around me are my real riches. That's my lasting wealth.

  Larry Sanders

  Real, People, Riches

  "NBA player who made $30 million explains why he's quitting at age 26" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. February 25, 2015.

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• Most of us aren't that interested in getting rich- we just don't want to get poor.

  Andy Rooney

  Want, Rich, Poor

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• Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Successful, Gardening, Taste

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• A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.

  Saadi

  Beauty, Littles

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• Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches.

  Saadi

  Comfort, Hoarding, Purpose

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