Wealth Quotes

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If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich.

- Charles Wagner

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We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

- Louis D. Brandeis

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so foaming, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

- Soren Kierkegaard

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.

- William Blum

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

- John Wooden

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

- Benjamin Franklin

Many wealthy people are little more than the janitors of their possessions.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

- Rowan D. Williams

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

- Doris Day

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There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Our true wealth is the good we do in this world. None of us has faith unless we desire for our neighbors what we desire for ourselves.

- Mohammed

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Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

- John Locke

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

- May Sarton

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

- Benjamin Jowett

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty an' wealth have both failed.

- Kin Hubbard

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

- Lane Kirkland

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

- Samuel Adams

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Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

- Sarah Bernhardt

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Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

from "The Matchmaker"

- Thornton Wilder

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Winston Churchill

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder.

- Maimonides

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

- Anne Bradstreet

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

- Aeschylus

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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

- Henry David Thoreau