Wealth Quotes - Page 33

• Wealth is knowledge and its origin is evolution

  Eric Beinhocker

  Evolution, Economics

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• Do not let your "eye" be drawn by the false "beacon lamps" -of wealth, or position, or fame, or possessions. Be vigilant over your will and desires, for these are the corrupt forces that dwell within, and keep you from living free.

  John of the Cross

  Eye, Over You, Desire

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• No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.

  Joy Davidman

  Enough, Consumerism, Overconsumption

  Joy Davidman (1985). “Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments”, p.120, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Country, Ocean, Lakes

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• Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it is very difficult to discover how it was done. By which weapon? In whose hand? Are we driving the ecosphere to destruction simply by our growing numbers? By our greedy accumulation of wealth? Or are the machines which we have built to gain this wealth-the magnificent technology that now feeds us out of neat packages, that clothes us in man-made fibers, that surrounds us with new chemical creations-at fault?

  Barry Commoner

  Powerful, Technology, Men

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• The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has been gained by rapid short-term exploitation of the environmental system, but it has blindly accumulated a debt to nature-a debt so large and so pervasive that in the next generation it may, if unpaid, wipe out most of the wealth it has gained us.

  Barry Commoner

  Technology, Environmental, Generations

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

  Horace

  Rome, Noise, Admire

  "Carmina", III. 29. 11, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 677, 1922.

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• Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Feelings, Would Be, Poverty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.98, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Years, Heaven, Wish

  Benjamin Franklin (1849). “Poor Richard's almanac for 1850-52”, p.46

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• If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Joy, Citizens

  Benjamin Franklin (1820). “Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth”, p.23

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• A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance!

  Charles Lamb

  Distance, Doors, Sublime

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• Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Character, Way, Abundance

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• Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.

  William Cowper

  Home, Thieves, Purses

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.129

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• 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.

  William Cowper

  Sleep, Fans, Slavery

  William Cowper (1811). “The task: a poem”, p.40

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• If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

  John Milton

  Ambition, Hands, Treasure

  John Milton (1785). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton. A New Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, ...”, p.92

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• For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state.

  John Milton

  Design, Ease, States

  John Milton (2014). “Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.33, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.

  Og Mandino

  Wise, Men, Satisfaction

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Choice: A Surprising New Message of Hope”, p.149, Bantam

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• Those wishing to be successful in the market can't ignore the boomer numbers, the wealth and spending power they have.

  Pat Conroy

  Successful, Numbers, Wish

  "Flower Power in Ad Land". www.nytimes.com. April 11, 2006.

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• I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.

  John Ruskin

  Desire, Facts

  John Ruskin (2007). “Unto This Last”, p.90, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

  Hesiod

  Men, Literature, Poverty

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• Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Art, Children, Adversity

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• In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of which the English peerage is an example, and of which we are beginning to abound in specimens in this country, is only a sort of human oyster bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worms' banquet.

  Horace Mann

  Country, Men, Oysters

  Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.49

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• The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker... Labor is the only source of wealth.

  Eli Siegel

  Important, Doe, Source

  Eli Siegel (1970). “Goodbye Profit System: 8 Aesthetic Realism Lectures May 22 to July 10, 1970, Reported by Students of Aesthetic Realism”

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• This is our true wealth: the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give ourselves, and the self-loving that flows as a natural by-product of that support.

  Peter McWilliams

  Self, Giving, Support

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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

  Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

  Bed, Fierce, Quiet

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