Wealth Quotes

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Regardless of whether luck or coincidence is involved, desires directed in the right way have a tendency to manifest.

Stephen Richards

If Bill Gates woke up with Oprah's money, he'd jump out the window.

Chris Rock

The insolence of wealth will creep out.

Samuel Johnson

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Johann von Goethe

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Johann von Goethe

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Mother Theresa

The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them.

Mother Theresa

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Mother Theresa

Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream --and yet God blesses it!

Georges Bernanos

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Benjamin Franklin

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Alexander Pope

A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.

Proverb

Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.

Thomas Fuller

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

Andrew Young

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

Andrew Young

Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

Andrew Young

Some find that they are content with little, while others find that they want much, much more. Still others create and manifest many things, only to later discover that it was the creation which brought them greater joy and satisfaction, more so than the actual possession or enjoyment of those creations.

Stephen Richards

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Hannah More