Quotation Explorer - 'Wealth'

Global inequality means that while the wealthy have too few needs, the needy have too little wealth. Capitalism is stymied, courting long-term disaster. - Benjamin Barber
Tithing is an open door to wealth. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively - Bob Marley
it is good to have wealth. It is great to leave in comfort. It is awesome to obtain possessions but, don't be too eager for material possessions for the same material possessions that bring joy are the same possessions that bring sorrow and pain and also leave a big had I know on our minds - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
People who are arrogant on account of their wealth are about equal to the Laplanders, who measure a man's worth by the number of his reindeer.
If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper. - Francis Quarles
With luck and resolution and good guidance.. the human mind can survive not only poverty, nut even wealth.
How does a poor country defeat rich ones? Indeed, the answer is not by acquiring wealth in the sense that France has it. Meaning vineyards, farms, peasants, cows? But rather to play a sort of trick and redefine wealth to mean something novel. Currency! Indeed. - Neal Stephenson
The efficient management of organizations is key to generating wealth, for the development of a country, for the preservation of natural resources and the enhancement of the human being. - Vinicius Montgomery
Hungry people are always thinking about food; poor people are always thinking about wealth. Obsessive thinking can kill your dreams! - Stephen Richards
Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learned - and if your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.
A country is poor not because they have no wealth but because they have no good ideas. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options. - Chris Rock
People become wealthy when they become specific... when they know what that means to them, not only in terms of the objects and amounts involved - ... but also in terms of how they want this wealth to make them feel. - Kiki Theo
Nations are not poor or rich because of their wealth but exceptional morality. - M.F. Moonzajer
Those who are coming from the gutters know that from time to time a piece of us will break off and float back to the floor from whence it came. Wealth can gray your eyes at the edges, money does not make you hover above human qualities, you are only a flawed being with much material gain. - Crystal Evans
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we lose all of our wealth and are only left with love then, indeed, we shall never be poor. - Stephen Richards
The true wealth of a man is not what's in his pocket, but what's in his heart. - Unarine Ramaru
Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and people that they do not even like. The same can be said about wealth. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Like democracy, civilization has to be willed and practice. Otherwise, society is a war of all against all, powered by individual cunning in the pursuit of wealth and power.
You create wealth by what you give. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Humans always love and hate each other for a reason; beauty or talent, hard working or wealth. If you want to be loved give them a reason. - M.F. Moonzajer
Without an abundance of hope and happiness, it will be difficult to accumulate an abundance of wealth. - Debasish Mridha
Wealth can only be multiplied through work. - Sunday Adelaja
You may have tangible wealth untold. Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be -I had a mother who read to me - Strickland W. Gillilan
We came to this world with two wealths, love and hope, but, in the end, love is our only wealth. - Debasish Mridha
Even when the economy isn’t doing so well, people will still need good products and services. When you build a business around products and services that people will always need, then find innovative ways to let it run on autopilot while you grow it, then that’s a sure recipe for wealth. - Kevin J. Donaldson
Health is Wealth - Ronnie Plant
Richness does not come from wealth or splendor, but from an appreciation of those things that you cannot buy. - Debasish Mridha
Peace wins over wealth. - Algerian Proverb
Giving is the only thing that creates wealth. - Lailah Gifty Akita
True wealth does not glitter. It is revealed by the beauty of a life well lived. - Debasish Mridha
Wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort, is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away. - Leo Tolstoy
There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue. - Tom Robbins
Generosity does not come from wealth. Wealth comes from the flowers of kindness and love. - Debasish Mridha
Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears. - Brian Tracy
You can achieve in your life more power and wealth, health and happiness through telling you connect strongly your subconscious mind and out of the place is it required to possess this power you already have, but you need to learn how to use them. - A.Bounda
Life and history have repeatedly taught us that values and virtues are far much stronger than the physical wealth we often see. For material wealth emanates from values and virtues. - Sunday Adelaja
The true wealth of a nation is not their natural resources but their achievements in education. - Debasish Mridha
Power and wealth only leads into great destruction. - Daniellewis
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle. - Mahatma Gandhi
Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy. - Theodore Roosevelt
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. - George Bernard Shaw
If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. - Socrates
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People forget that they have to create their wealth in their nation. They rather think they must be given. - Sunday Adelaja
You create the action, the chances, the opportunities, the wealth, the happiness, the success, the rhythm, the speed, you control all the outcomes in your life! - Stan The Man SA
The First wealth is health. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Capitalism brings wealth and inequality with intellectuality. - Sandeep Sethi
As a nation, develop your wealth of virtues and watch yourself live better than most countries who brag themselves in their virtues of natural wealth - Sunday Adelaja
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth. - Sidney Madwed
Time is exactly the amount of wealth God gives to each and every one of us on a daily basis - Sunday Adelaja
We are all endowed with wealth of time equally - Sunday Adelaja
Invest to acquire knowledge to grow your wealth of wisdom. - Debasish Mridha
You spend your TIME to make a DIME. You lose your HEALTH to make your WEALTH, but at the end it is FUNNY because you leave back all your MONEY.- - RVM
Happiness is not in wealth or splendor, but in passion, perception, and pursuit. - Debasish Mridha
To obtain wealth beyond measure, seek to make more friends than money. - Richelle E. Goodrich
I have no wealth or splendors to give, but I have love and smiles to share. - Debasish Mridha
Education is the best wealth that you can acquire in life. No one can steal it when you are alive. - Debasish Mridha
Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith. - Gordon B. Hinckley
Love never dies, it become the wealth of the universe when we die. - Debasish Mridha
Wisdom outweighs any wealth. - Sophocles
The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.
The wealth of some people is here on earth. The wealth of other people is somewhere afar from the earth. Whatever the wealth may be, we must think of a wealth that is distinctive - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
All the material wealth cannot satisfy the soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Wisdom defines your value—not your wealth. - Debasish Mridha
To a certain degree,We all seek, life’s purpose and meaning,love, peace and joy,and knowledge, wealth and power… - I. Alan Appt
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. - W. Somerset Maugham
Becoming wealthy is about accumulating wealth. - Stephen Richards
To find wealth, we may not need to mine for treasure if we learn how to mine between our ears. - Debasish Mridha
You spend your TIME to make a DIME. You lose your HEALTH to make your WEALTH, but at the end it is FUNNY because you leave back all your MONEY. - R.v.m.
God only gives men power to make wealth, meaning God does not give wealth, he gives the power to work for it. (Deut. 8:18) - Sunday Adelaja
Capitalists grow wealth. Socialists redistribute wealth.... but population grows, so the Socialist population control kicks in in the form of eugenics. - A.E. Samaan
Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things. - Baruch Spinoza
You can almost always find something in common with another person, and from there, it's much easier to address issues where you have differences. Sports cut across boundaries of race and wealth. And if nothing else, we all have the weather in common. - Randy Pausch
Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil. - Douglas Wilson
The blessings and grace of God is my greatest wealth. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. "It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, is wealthy. That wealth is the wealth of time. - Sunday Adelaja
Wondering why a person who has made the most of the wealth in own life through LUCK only; says, most often, to the people the most about the importance of HARD WORK in their lives. - Anuj Somany
You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be. I had a mother who read to me. - Strickland Gillian
To misuse wealth is a great fault. - Dada Bhagwan
Wealth is violent and uneasy to acquire, don't blow yourself by rushing. You won't find, you will only get lost on your way to find and you won't find it, Reserve yourself and wealth will find you. - Auliq Ice
Immense self-made wealth is the evidence of a grandly rich mind - Julian Pencilliah
Neither poverty nor wealth is in the wallet. They are all in the mind. - Ola Barnabas
EULOGY, n. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. - Ambrose Bierce
The greatest wealth is to live content with little. - Plato
The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong acquire by force, the weak by petitioning. - Ludwig von Mises
Food, a French man told me once, is the first wealth. Grow it right, and you feel insanely rich, no matter what you own. - Kristin Kimball
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. - Rex Stout
Wealth is a byproduct of wealth-oriented education, ideas, and thoughts. - Debasish Mridha
To be rich, focus on your wealth. - Deyth Banger
When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time. - Sunday Adelaja
Consistency matters. You must learn that giving people a consistent high-quality product is of importance, like building trust across your brand. This build relational wealth - people want to know what they are about to step into and with whom. - Nicole Dominique Le Maire
The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that people began to understand that wealth and success is not a matter of luck. - Sunday Adelaja
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. - Mark Twain
Those with calling also find wealth, so jump and start swimming towards your true self. - Ryan Lilly
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. - John Dewey
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. - Aristotle
...a science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.
Think on blessings and not curses, beauty not ugliness, health not sickness. Meditate on wealth not poverty, success not failure, grace not disgrace! - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I’m proud of it. - Paul Krugman
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. - Billy Graham
When we share intelligence, wealth, or love, we grow. - Debasish Mridha
We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth. - Gloria Steinem
Sharing knowledge is sharing wealth - Andrew-Knox B Kaniki
Wealth wins temporary allies;love wins permanent friends. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. - Peter F. Drucker
Strength is wealth. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Richness is not in wealth or earning capability, but it is in your perception. - Debasish Mridha
I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes. - Oprah Winfrey
Great difficult is the dogged bedfellow of great wealth, which always renders great wealth as less than great. Yet, great wealth as bequeathed by God is robustly free of such travails, which always renders it greater than great. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse. - Chilo
Time is the ultimate wealth. - Sunday Adelaja
It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours. - John F. Kennedy
Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Once you achieve self intimacy & self-connection, success, peace & wealth is not far from you. - Vishwas Chavan
If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire. - George Monbiot
First, I had time, but no money; then I had money, but no time. Finally, I had time and money, but no health to make use of my wealth. - RVM
Nigeria is a country with abundance of wealth, but because of lack of truth and integrity, the wealth are stolen, but the paradox of the whole thing is, this stolen wealth always find their way to nations with no apparent natural wealth, but with a high credit of degree of truth and honesty. - Sunday Adelaja
Our people must once again realize that it is only hard work and excellence that leads to wealth creation. - Sunday Adelaja
There is no gem like virtue, no wealth like happiness, no treasure like faith, and no jewel like love. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Thatcher set ordinary people free, but into a landscape that her other policies had already shaped to suit other, more powerful interests, such as large corporations or Britons with inherited wealth. - Andy Beckett
Even though we live in an unfair world, where some men and nations acquire their wealth in ways that are not always as straightforward as we would like it to be, yet in the midst of it all, it is not impossible to discover principles and secrets for the greatness of nations. - Sunday Adelaja
IMPUNITY, n. Wealth. - Ambrose Bierce
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys. - Ludwig von Mises
I have no riches but my thoughts, Yet these are wealth enough for me - Sara Teasdale
No matter how great your wealth of knowledge may be, it is still insufficient - Sunday Adelaja
The most common way to spot a common person is perhaps that s/he, irrespective of her/his wealth position, has almost all thinking common most often with the most people. - Anuj Somany
He does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech to advance the good of others.
Your mind contains great capital.Your heart contains extraordinary riches.Your soul contains remarkable treasure.Your life contains marvelous wealth. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Those with an abundant mindset will have abundant wealth. - Debasish Mridha
When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition. - Brian S. Wesbury
You have unlimited wealth and that is your love. - Debasish Mridha
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness. - Anthony de Mello
I have a definition of success. For me, it's very simple. It's not about wealth and fame and power. It's about how many shining eyes I have around me. - Benjamin Zander
He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.
The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed. - Alfred A. Montapert
ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth or power. Peculiarly appropriate in an employee when addressing an employer. - Ambrose Bierce
External signs of wealth and success are often cheap storefronts that hide internal mediocrity or even incompetence. - Gordon Atkinson
The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925. - Frederick Lewis Donaldson
Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful! - Mehmet Murat ildan
the opportunity of sharing the blessings of family and friends keeps reminding us of the wealth of emotions, but, later in life yearning to relive those times, but only to offer the memories, in exchange to what one had or remember when one is reminded. - levi paul taylor
Love is your only wealth. Everything else is just a mirage. - Debasish Mridha
Wealth is defined in many ways, yet freedom might be its best indication. - Todd William
The world admires wealth and velocity—these are the things for which everyone strives. Railroads, the post, steamboats, and all possible modes of communication are the means by which the world overeducates itself and freezes itself in mediocrity. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth
That amount of time is to be converted into some products, benefits, goods, services, welfare, ministry, but most of us actually truncate this amount of wealth on daily basis. - Sunday Adelaja
We hate each other by race, color, tribe, wealth, gender etc because everyone wants to feel special and different than the other. I do not however have a solution on how people can stop having an ego that makes them specially superior than the other. - Robert Kodingo
The greatest undiscovered splendid wealth is hidden in the most exquisite palace in the never ending land of your mind. You just have to find the wealth. - Debasish Mridha
Sometimes man seeks for wealth for eighty years, but cannot find, and then realises that life itself is the wealth itself! - Mehmet Murat ildan
We must stop calling the looting of our national wealth, a share in the national cake. - Sunday Adelaja
No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself - Plato
We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state - Socrates
Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous. - Sir Thomas Browne
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted
Work therefore is designed to release all this abundance of wealth hidden inside everything. - Sunday Adelaja
True education is the best wealth. - Debasish Mridha
For a nation to be truly wealthy, it must possess a wealth of virtues. - Sunday Adelaja
Have intercourse with females, acquire wealth. - John Stuart Mill
Giving is the sacred-gift that creates wealth. - Lailah Gifty Akita
People living godly will dwell on high. Meaning wealth, honour, prosperity, fame, elevation, joy etc. - Sunday Adelaja
Wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources (petroleum, gold, diamond, gas etc.) and more valuable than human resources. - Sunday Adelaja
If you know how rich you are then you are not rich. But us, we do not know the vastness of our wealth. That's how rich we are.
It is not our fame or wealth that puts us in danger; it is our arrogance and egotism - M.F. Moonzajer
Wealth in money, mineral resources are not the real wealth. The true wealth of nation is the character of her people. - Sunday Adelaja
All wealth is the product of thoughts, labor, and love. - Debasish Mridha
In life, your greatest wealth is not your money, but it is your time. - Debasish Mridha
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. - Socrates
Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth. - T. J. Hoover and J. C. L. Fish
Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade: A breath can make them, as a breath has made; but a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. - Oliver Goldsmith
Material wealth alone is not enough to build a great nation. - Sunday Adelaja
One of the secrets a nation can unlock to have material wealth is, having a leader who will take an uncompromising stand to establish truth and honesty as a rule of building the nation - Sunday Adelaja
All wealth is the product of labor. - John Locke
A wealth of experience and wisdom doesn't have to be a dead giveaway to your increasing years. The spin you put on it is what will keep you young. Don't let it make you bitter. Learn from it, and let it make you better. - Jayleigh Cape
As a people we practiced excess. Excess in everything - pleasure, gaudy display, endless toil, and death. Vagrant children slept in the alleys. Ragpicking was a profession. A conspicuously self-satisfied class of new wealth and weak intellect was all aglitter in a setting of mass misery. - E.L. Doctrow
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth. - Bonnie Friedman
The lasting sweetness of the wealth obtained is directly proportional to the honesty of its source. Dishonest wealth does not last. - Israelmore Ayivor
God does not give money. He gives the power to get wealth. - Sunday Adelaja
Unfortunately, we do not often see the advantages in the power of values and virtues. We are easily taken away by physical wealth, material possessions and the power of money. - Sunday Adelaja
The time when freedom is no longer held in the highest regard is not during times of want or suffering, but during the era of civility, pleasure, and wealth. - Eric J. Martindale
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. - Unknown
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied. - Plutarch
PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To effect a change of ownership with the candid concomitance of a brass band. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity. - Ambrose Bierce
In this universe of ours, with its wealth of errors and legends, historical data and false information, one absolute truth is the fact that Superman is Clark Kent. All the rest is always open to debate. - Umberto Eco
I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge in innumerable spheres and enjoyed it as an always ready instrument for exercising the mind and penetrating further and further. Best of all, mine has been a life of loving and being loved. What a tragedy that all this will disappear with the used-up body! - Richard Goldschmidt
The blessings of the Lord is our greatest wealth. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The essence of life is love, and that is my wealth and influence. - Debasish Mridha
Your composite health is directly proportional to your composite wealth. - Anthony Pan
To make wealth wisdom, one needs to be wise. Wisdom may be able to wear the suit of wealth but wealth may not be able to wear the suit of wisdom - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Love is my love, power, strength, wealth, and purpose. - Debasish Mridha
Humor and Health,The staples of wealth. - S Austin
At the end of the day, all I have to cherish are human relationships. Your worldly wealth you can't take away with you, your life has been lived. It is the friends you have made, your family ties, which sustain your spirit with a certain warmth and comfort.-LKY at 80: 80 quotes from a life (2003) - LKY on LIFE
Health is wealth but being wealthy does not mean one is healthy. - Osunsakin Adewale
Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
The wealth God has given to everyman is the wealth of TIME. - Sunday Adelaja
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. - William Shakespeare
Wealth mostly ignored the real reality. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. - Kin Hubbard
Knowledge is a wealth that cannot be stolen; it will grow when you try to give it away. - Debasish Mridha
When possession of wealth or splendors brings happiness- it is an illusion, when attainment of certain mental state brings happiness- it is a real possession. - Debasish Mridha
A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health, long life, wealth, and for the damsels and slaves of the Paradise. Ponder! Did you ever pray to God, ‘O’ God, I desire from Thee nothing but Thee’? - Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
Wealth is a planned result that requires productive work and dedication. The Tanakh says, The plans of the diligent lead only to abundance; but all who rush in arrive only at want (CJB, Proverbs 21:5). - H.W. Charles
It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on. - Albert Jay Nock
Be focused and learn what it takes to excel in your calling. Be patient and persistent in your drive to succeed. Be ready to pay the price of success because wealth without sweat is wishful thinking. Never give up on your dreams so you don’t lose what can actually bring you true success. - Sesan Kareem
For thy sweet love remembr'd such wealth bringsThat then, I scorn to change my state with kings. - William Shakespeare
Wealth is neither an ends nor a means, it is a symptom. - Christopher Dutton
A fine dress on a homely maiden is never enough of a distraction. It can convey a sense of wealth and its accompanying attractions, but it can never truly compensate for a plain face. - Laura Moncur
True wealth isn't measured by what you have making you happy, true wealth is measured by being happy with what you have. - Scott Joffe
The only reason i love the courage of these individuals is that they take their family members as astray chicks, and the reason i don't want to belong to this category is because those chicks are far more important to me than trivial wealth and fame. - Michael Bassey Johnson
For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The future of a country doesn't depend on its wealth but on its education. - Debasish Mridha
What do you mean by sound government?'Good public order, no corruption in high places, freedom from fear and war and crime, a reasonably equitable distribution of wealth and resources, concern for the individual life.'Then we haven't got sound government. - P.D. James
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. - Johann Georg von Zimmermann
When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.
I have learned to find happiness not by possessing wealth and splendor but by giving it away for mankind. - Debasish Mridha
All the material wealth cannot be substituted for the spiritual, physical, emotion and mental well-being. - Lailah Gifty Akita
You can create sense out of nonsense, something out of nothing. You can create wealth out of dearth, viable ventures out of turbulent adventures. You can create mercies out of miseries. You can create tomorrow’s peace out of today’s crisis. - Ikechukwu Joseph
If we want our nations to be truly great we must lay less emphasis on material wealth, natural resources or even human resources. - Sunday Adelaja
There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty! - Ann Radcliffe
It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity." - Lady Taylor - Julie Garwood
If you're searching for something out in the world to bring you happiness, wealth or love, then you are in for a tough journey. The key to success is never out there, but rather within. It is merely a side effect of awakening the divine within! - Erin Fall Haskell
When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied. - Herophilus
The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters. - Genghis Khan
I am wealth, prosperity, and abundance. God multiplies this and I give thanks I AM receiving more and more money everyday. - Ron Barrow
The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth.
I am the Richest man on earth because I am the Happiest man on earth. After all, isn’t Happiness the Greatest Wealth in Life? - - RVM
There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time. - Frank Herbert
The knowledge of God gives a person the opportunity to not be a slave to wealth. - Sunday Adelaja
Material wealth can be bad for your health.Because when you’re in the soil it’ll make your blood boil,that you couldn’t keep it all for your self. - Benny Bellamacina
The greatest wealth is well-being. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Health is wealth but wealth is not health - Osunsakin Adewale
You achieve greatness, not by accumulating wealth, but by becoming king, loving, forgiving, and simple. - Debasish Mridha
There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance. - Ali ibn Abi Talib
Unlike wealth, fame makes it easier for some men and more difficult for some to sleep around. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The lesson of the ages have proved that success is more than just the accumulation of wealth and by contract no one can be a complete failure when you work towards goals and services of others, your goals must be fulfilled. - Godwin Elendu Ph.D
Wealth will always find a way of escaping from societies without an established system of truth and honesty, into societies that are well established in truth and honesty. - Sunday Adelaja
There is no wealth but life. - John Ruskin
Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven.
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. - Arab Proverb
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. - Edmund Burke
His adolescents are displaced aristocrats who have lost their kingdom and wealth, which was childhood. [On J.D. Salinger] - Heather O'Neill
Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? ­ - Henri Cartier-Bresson
The road to wealth is sown with false starts and failures that should in no way discourage the poor who make good or our neighbors with new found riches. We have to give it our all. - Roberto Bolaño
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. - Arthur Schopenhauer
O the divine, O my love, I don't want to seduce you with my wealth or splendor, but with my love and deepest gratitude. - Debasish Mridha
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. - Russell Green
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship... the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. - Peter Drucker
The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote) - Kurt Hahn
If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I can do nothing without His help. Oh, Lord, what ignorance thinking everything was wealth. - Venus Angelica Perez
The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that Superstition regarding work and wealth was broken. Everybody now knows that wealth comes only from hard work, not from some superstitious beliefs. - Sunday Adelaja
We alays blame the outer world for our failures, unhappiness and frustration. It is time to realise that it is health, harmony and wealth of our inner world that determine the degree of our success, joy, peace and bliss. - Vishwas Chavan
God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. - Steve Jobs
Of what use is your Wealth and Kingdom if you don't have the Liberation and Freedom to Be what you want to Be. - RVM
Friends are better than a lot of wealth. - joannellie eleeza
The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed the spirit in all that. - John Burdett
Do not seek wealth or splendor, but seek true wisdom, freedom, and joy of life. - Debasish Mridha
Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.
Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain. - Oprah Winfrey
I may not be able to leave behind wealth or splendor, but I will try to leave behind examples and stories of my love and kindness to inspire you to be kind and spread the message of kindness. - Debasish Mridha
Focus means being diligent. Diligence always leads to wealth. - Sunday Adelaja
Maybe we are the wealthiest people around the world; but we haven’t found wealth on the road. - M.F. Moonzajer
If imagination is your wealth, then ideas are your abode. - Debasish Mridha
The measure of wealth is the ability to afford ones' mistakes. - Elyse Wilk
The usefulness or otherwise of wealth, status and power to a possessor depends only on a single factor: the nature and strength of his reason. - Thiruman Archunan
As a people we practiced excess. Excess in everything - pleasure, gaud display, endless toil, and death. Vagrant children slept in the alleys. Ragpicking was a profession. A conspicuously self-satisfied class of new wealth and weak intellect was all aglitter in a setting of mass misery. - E.L. Doctrow
Once waking into the realization that eternity is waiting in every moment, I discovered that wealth is time, not money. - Mark Nepo
A few men’s fight for the survival is stronger than a nation’s fight for the wealth. - M.F. Moonzajer
Many crores of rupees are squandered in this country by way offering gratitude to God and bribing Him to gain greater and greater wealth. - Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food. - T.K. Naliaka
Entrepreneur, noun: someone who takes calculated risks to add value to wider society with the hope of making money and building wealth - M. James Airey
wealth is one of the keys to open paradise - Faiz Triumph
It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When wealth flees, untrue friends follow. - Thomas F. Shubnell
One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor. - Thomas More
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldings enjoy. - Edward Young
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. - Samuel Smiles
Wealth is the byproduct of thoughts. To be wealthy, think of wealth. - Debasish Mridha
The percentage of the citizenry that embrace and identify with the nation’s virtues, with the nation’s value system, determine the true wealth of that nation - Sunday Adelaja
Regardless of how much wealth [material pleasures] one has, if he does not like bondage even for a moment, then he has become qualified to understand the science of the Vitarags [the enlightened one’s]. - Dada Bhagwan
There could be nothing more scary scene in public relationship than the fact as how most people spend time together without having any liking for one another especially in the corridors of wealth power. - Anuj Somany
The question will arise and arise in your day, though perhaps not fully in mine: Which shall rule wealth or man? Which shall lead money or intellect? Who shall fill public stations educated and patriotic freemen or the feudal serfs of corporate capital? - Edward G. Ryan
Our goodness is our wealth and when we close our eyes to the tragedies of the hard lives, we start losing our wealth! - Mehmet Murat ildan
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions. - Daniel Webster
Share your love, share you happiness, care for others; your wealth will be endless. - Debasish Mridha
The greatest wealth is a loving peaceful mind. - Debasish Mridha
The best treasure of life is not wealth, but it is simplicity with confidence. - Debasish Mridha
The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain. - Roberto Bolaño
Through the practice of meditation, of calming and focusing our mind, as well as developing greater clarity and a sense of awareness, we train ourselves to recognize the wealth that was already there - the very wealth others fail to recognize. - Stephen Richards
Wealth will always find their way out of societies where truth and honesty are not established into the societies where there are principles of honesty and truth. - Sunday Adelaja
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Loose not humanity in pursuit of wealth. - Mapogo Chuene
Lust is insatiable, whether it feeds on power, wealth, or flesh. It eventually consumes our morality and ultimately consumes our humanity. - Ron Brackin
The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil. - Boyd K. Packer
Nothing guarantees a person effortless wealth as when his SEASON comes. - Auliq-Ice
You will get your father's wealth one day but not his legacy. - Amit Kalantri
Wealth of good manners is what no one can steal from you. You can keep it with you wherever you go. - Moazzam Shaikh
Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth. - Robert T. Kiyosaki
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity. - Mahatma Gandhi
At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material wealth acquired, or power and prestige, but rather on the basis of what you have become as persons and what you are in conduct and character. - Howard W. Hunter
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. - Herbert Simon
A man might share his wealth, but never his authority. - Amit Kalantri
I am not rich, but I am wealthy and my wealth is my love. - Debasish Mridha
A wealth you cannot imagineflows through you.Do not consider what strangers say.Be secluded in your secret heart-house,that bowl of silence. - Jalaluddin Rumi
Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money. - Alanis Obomsawin
In order to get wealth, knowledge is needed. - Sunday Adelaja
How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure. - Parker J. Palmer
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum. - Frederick Douglass
If you are an artist, may no love of wealth or fame or admiration and no fear of blame or misunderstanding make you ever paint, with pen or brush, an ideal of external life otherwise than as you see it. - Olive Schreiner
Your mind is capital when you have none.Your heart is money when you have none.Your soul is wealth when you have none.Your life is your investment when you have none. - Matshona Dhliwayo
True wealth, success, and happiness can only be achieved by balancing our business life with the duty we have to our self and to our family. - Joseph C. Kunz Jr.
I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline of the subject. It is due simply to the fact that power, wealth and prestige can only be obtained by the correct application of science. - Derek Barton
Why would we want fame, when God promises us glory? Why would we be seeking the wealth of the world when the wealth of heaven is ours? Why would we run for a crown that will perish with time, when we're called to win a crown that is imperishable? - Paul David Washer
Live your life to care and your inner wealth to share. - Debasish Mridha
Education and wisdom will define your destination in life-- not wealth. - Debasish Mridha
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness. - Thomas Jefferson
Wealth is not money. Wealth lies in men. This is where true power lies, the power we value. This is what has convinced us to direct all our resources to building the individual, and to using the wealth which God has provided us in the service of the nation. - Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan
There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means. - Albert Jay Nock
The wealth of time we wastage, is worth much more than all the natural resources we have on the earth. - Sunday Adelaja
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth. - Seneca
Is it not the disparity of wealth that consumes the willing soul. Rather, the golden keys of opportunity clamor softly with fraught anxiety of things which may never come. - Joel T. McGrath
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth. - Democritus
Love has no age, race, wealth, ethnic bakground, gender, or appearence. Love is love and that's the way it's supposed to be. - TheKatAttack
Material wealth don’t just come and go, they come to stay as long as the virtues remain in the fabric of a nation - Sunday Adelaja
The truth therefore is that great nations become great not because of their amount of wealth an Great nations become great thanks to their wealth of truth, honesty and other virtues the natural resources. - Sunday Adelaja
We always see other's wealth & lifestyle. But should not neglect their hard work as well... - Gargi
Your wealth or status doesn't make you. Your kindness and character does. - Venkat Desireddy
Now he was nothing to her, just a lesson in time, a wicked boy-man, incapable of wealth or prestige. - Coco J. Ginger
The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order toderive a permanent future income from it - to convert wealth that perishesinto debt that endures, debt that does not rot, costs nothing to maintain,and brings in perennial interest. - Frederick Soddy
your wealth and so called status can not earn real respect for you in the society , if you are characterless (have no purity). - Tayyab Nawaz Sulehri
Possession of wealth is not the happiness but expression of gratitude for the possession is the happiness. - Debasish Mridha
Peace is not a place or destination but a perception.Peace is not in wealth or splendorBut in conviction.Peace is in friendship, love and unity.Peace is in care, tranquility and serenity. Peace is in compliment, appreciation and forgiveness. Peace is the source of smile, joy and happiness. - Debasish Mridha
True wealth is in the heart. - K.A. Hosein
Wealth is not what you have for yourself. Wealth is what you share with others. - J.R. Rim
Why are we occupied with material wealth than spiritual nourishment? - Lailah Gifty Akita
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate. - Euripides
Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honour'd now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty; For I can see no fruits in all their faith, But malice, falsehood, and excessive pride, Which methinks fits not their profession. - Christopher Marlowe
Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes. - Oprah Winfrey
Those who fight for food will die in hunger, those who fight for wealth will end up poor heated, only those who seek knowledge and freedome will succeed even at there past. - Hamzat haruna Ribah
Two hungry wolves let loose among sheep are not more harmful then a person craving after wealth and status is to his Deen (Religion). - Al-Haafidh Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbalee
It must once again become a common knowledge to our people that it is only the wealth that we create that we can share - Sunday Adelaja
I'm not crazy when I replace everything that people consider as a stability, safety and wealth with the right to think of the moment I had spent with you. - jihad eltabey
If the wealth you've accumulated is in the form of friends, family and books, then you're doing life right. - Saleem Sharma
Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave. - The Talmud
Tithing is a sacred gift to health and wealth. - Lailah Gifty Akita
How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose..! You drove them from me, you who are the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me and took their place.... O Lord my God, my Light, my Wealth, and my Salvation. - Augustine of Hippo
You have unbounded, unlimited wealth and that if your love. Spend it as much as you can, as fast as you can, as often as you can. You will find that you are getting richer every day. - Debasish Mridha
In my errant life I roamedto learn the secrets of women and men,of gods and dreams.I lived in wealth and poverty, in fame and calamity.I saw every country of our world,I lived a thousand lives.Many lives I spent, other lives I squandered,for in my life I never traveled, all I did was wander. - Roman Payne
To attempt to increase the wealth of any country, either by introducing or by detaining in it an unnecessary quantity of gold and silver, is as absurd as it would be to attempt to increase the good cheer of private families by obliging them to keep an unnecessary number of kitchen utensils. - Adam Smith
Stupid crowds are the greatest wealth of the crook politicians! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Those who have assets must withdraw them from the markets of loans. Do not accept notes of loan on speculation. The time will soon come when you will gain no profits from the market of loans, and your wealth will be taken by the very few. - Compton Gage
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. - Epictetus
Those who speak most of health, have it. Those who speak most of wealth, have it. Those who speak most of joy, have it. The opposite also holds true. So which would you rather have? - Stephen Richards
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. - Plato
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool. - Seneca
The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything. - Benjamin Franklin
Like never before the trajectories of wealth, business, and poverty can be altered in unexpected ways by women. The field of dreams is being reconstructed by technology and the knowledge economy so that the gates, ceilings, doors, and portals are wide open for all who want to play. - Lillian Gregory
When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time. Moreover, these material wealth don’t just come and go, they come to stay as long as the virtues remain in the fabric of the nation - Sunday Adelaja
It is better to live in a hut with abundance of unconditional love than live in wealth and splendor but without any love. - Debasish Mridha
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. - Socrates
Wealth and greed are the roots of all evils - Ali R.A
The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth, and prosperity in a world hostile to our values. - Phyllis Schlafly
Are you looking for a wealth in life? Fool! Life is the wealth itself! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The power of health and wealth lies in tithing. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't measure your wealth by how much money you have. Measure your wealth by how many things you have that you wouldn't take money for.
Happiness depends on our thoughts and actions, not on wealth, splendor, or external conditions. - Debasish Mridha
Stay upbeat and keep your head held high. There is no end to the power of positive thinking. I AM looking forward to all the wealth, success, and abundance speeding my way! - Ron Barrow
He who acquired all his wealth by *being at the right place at the right time* is hypocritical by being angry for losing all his wealth because of his *being at the wrong place at the wrong time.* - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity. - Epicurus
The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with sadness, joy, happiness, anger, wealth, poverty, etc. - Michael Bassey Johnson
True wealth comes less from having riches than from knowing how to live richly. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal
There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. ...But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind. - Deepak Chopra
When all has been said and done,When all the wealth has been amassed,When all the battles have been fought and won,When all the monuments have been built,All that remains is love - love for the fellow man.... - Phumi Ngwane
My life's misery and tragedy is my wealth and splendor. - Debasish Mridha
Men are not great by the virtue of their wealth, but by the wealth of their virtue. - Sunday Adelaja
If you want to get wealth, focus on wealth. If you want happiness, focus on happiness. - Debasish Mridha
Truth resides in the wealth of experience. - Marty Rubin
All true wealth is biological. - Lois McMaster Bujold
Wealth is a byproduct of positive, wealth-oriented thoughts. - Debasish Mridha
Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants. - Esther de Wall
The living limit is not ascertained by wealth one has - Duncan Tallam
Happiness' is wealth. - Andrea L'Artiste
I will not pray for health or wealth or splendor; I will pray for a higher consciousness. - Debasish Mridha
True happiness cannot not be achieved through wealth, fame or action, But through love, modesty and self satisfaction. - Mouloud Benzadi
Wealth seldom fails to breed the fear of poverty. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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