Riches famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.
-- Aeschylus -
We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.
-- Ahmed Sekou Toure -
Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.
-- Aldo Leopold -
As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend.
-- Alfredo Di Stefano -
Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
Bathe in your riches and friends, I'll stay here with my songbooks and pens
-- Andy Biersack -
There are some rich people who, no matter how much God sends their way, never seem to put their hope in their riches.
-- Andy Stanley -
How I measure riches is by the friends I have and the loved ones I have and the people that I care about in my life, and that's where my values are and that's where my riches are.
-- Ann Romney -
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.
-- Anne Bradstreet -
Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.
-- Anne Frank -
I am not greedy of money myself, but the monotony of always screwing and paring is more tiresome than the monotony of riches.
-- Annie French Hector -
For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.
-- Aristotle -
Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
-- B. C. Forbes -
By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
-- Bayard Taylor -
Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.
-- Billy Sunday -
How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is boundless, the more you search for it the greater the riches you will find; let us search unceasingly and let us not stop until we have found it.
-- Brother Lawrence -
The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.
-- Charles A. Reich -
Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.
-- Chris Murray -
There is nothing wrong with being poor; but there is everything wrong with remaining poor after you have discovered your riches in Christ.
-- Chris Oyakhilome -
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.
-- Christian Scriver -
Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.
-- Christopher Columbus -
O blessed poverty, who bestows eternal riches on those who love and embrace her!
-- Clare of Assisi -
Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.
-- Daniel Gilbert -
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none
-- David Brainerd -
[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.
-- Deborah Kerr -
In this age of quick fixes and microwave mindsets, most of us want what we want, and we want it right now, whether it is instant download speed, instant riches, or an Oompa-Loompa, but just as you can't force the farm to produce a harvest, you can't force your seed of potential to grow until it is ripe and ready.
-- Derek Rydall -
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
-- Desiderius Erasmus -
My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.
-- Diana Ross -
Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal
-- Donald E. Williams, Jr. -
Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking off so much of the pleasures of this world, and there's only so much to go around.
-- Dorothy Stang -
Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known.
-- Edgar Rice Burroughs -
Do we, mad as we all are after riches, hear often enough from the pulpit the spirit of those words in which Dean Swift, in his epitaph on the affluent and profligate Colonel Chartres, announces the small esteem of wealth in the eyes of God, from the fact of His thus lavishing it upon the meanest and basest of His creatures?
-- Edwin Percy Whipple -
I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.
-- Eleanora Duse -
It is not easy to be a pioneer but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.
-- Elizabeth Blackwell -
there are times when the one thing you haven't counts more than all the riches that may be yours.
-- Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett -
The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.
-- Ernie Banks -
And now that I don't want to own anything any more and am free, now I suddenly own everything, now my inner riches are immeasurable.
-- Etty Hillesum -
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
-- Fanny Burney -
The use of riches is better than their possession.
-- Fernando de Rojas -
Wouldst thou multiply thy riches? diminish them wisely; or wouldst thou make thy estate entire? divide it charitably. Seeds that are scattered increase; but, hoarded up, they perish.
-- Francis Quarles -
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.
-- Gene Stratton-Porter -
Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.
-- Giovanni Ruffini -
A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick -
No riches from his scanty store / My lover could impart; / He gave a boon I valued more - / He gave me all his heart!
-- Helen Maria Williams -
Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.
-- Heloise -
Few men are both rich and generous; fewer are both rich and humble.
-- Henry Edward Manning -
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason
-- Henry Fielding -
The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.
-- Horace -
Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.
-- Horace -
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.
-- Horace -
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.
-- Horace -
Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.
-- Horace -
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
-- Horace -
[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.
-- Hudson Taylor -
Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God.
-- Ibrahim Rugova -
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 -
It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.
-- Izaak Walton -
One always has riches when one has a book to read.
-- Jacqueline Winspear -
On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death.
-- Jamaica Kincaid -
Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway, The passion and infirmity of age.
-- James Anthony Froude -
Every human being I have ever met, irrespective of the business, the job or life situation they are in, possesses at least one and normally multiple instant jackpots that are within their grasp. All they have to do is recognize them, believe that they are there, and believe that they are entitled to harvest them and the financial and the personal wealth and riches that come along with them.
-- Jay Abraham -
There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.
-- Jay Samit -
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed and gratefully appreciated, they must be interrupted so the person can see that not having them is not as good as having them.
-- Jean Paul -
...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
The present moment holds infinite riches beyond your wildest dreams.
-- Jean-Pierre de Caussade -
If riches increase, set not your hearts upon them: so if friends increase, set not your hearts upon them, but trust in the living God, let it be the living God that you rest on even for all outward things in this world.
-- Jeremiah Burroughs -
Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things-though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.
-- Jess C Scott -
Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans.
-- Jim Rohn -
It is a wealthy person, indeed, who calculates riches not in gold but in friends.
-- Jim Stovall -
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
-- John Dryden -
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
-- John Locke -
Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive, Get riches first, get wealth.
-- John Milton -
Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very rich are a poor bunch of bastards
-- John Steinbeck -
Never forget: the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for others.
-- John Templeton -
The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.
-- John Tillotson -
There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in charity.
-- John Tillotson -
The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.
-- Joseph Addison -
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.
-- Joseph Brotherton -
The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.
-- Joseph Franklin Rutherford -
Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings.
-- Joseph Franklin Rutherford -
By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.
-- Joseph Franklin Rutherford -
God is the source of my supply. His riches flow to me freely, copiously, and abundantly. All my financial and other needs are met at every moment of time and point of space; there is always a divine surplus.
-- Joseph Murphy -
Wherefore a good name is better than riches.
-- Joseph Smith, Jr. -
The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.
-- Josiah Strong
