Top 100 Be Rich Quotes
#1. Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions.
Luke The Evangelist
#2. I'd rather be poor to my bones than be rich with your money, that is like a trigger, ready to be pulled in my face.
Nema Al-Araby
#3. If one had taken what is necessary to cover one's needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need.
Saint Basil
#4. The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.
Rebecca Solnit
#5. I'd stand on the street corner and score a steak," Cas said.
I couldn't help laughing. "You know, you might be flooded with business."
His mouth stretched into a lecherous grin. "If you come with me we could be rich by morning."
"Very funny.
Jennifer Rush
#6. I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.
Donna Leon
#7. There have always been two ways to be rich: by accumulating vast sums or by needing very little.
Ethan Hawke
#8. Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#10. I may never be rich or famous but I've created a whole world, where anything I want is possible what more could anyone want to achieve?
B.B. Taylor
#11. Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else.
Liane Moriarty
#12. Even the poorest House can be rich in loyalty. Allegiance that must be purchased by bribes or wages is hollow and flawed, and could break at the worst possible moment. Allegiance that comes from the heart, though, is stronger than adamantium and more valuable than purest melange.
Brian Herbert
#13. It has always been important to me to be a creative artist, not to be a star, not to be rich, not to be famous.
Donna McKechnie
#14. I don't even want to be rich I just want to be alone.
John Darnielle
#15. If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund Burke
#16. The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
Gavid Hood
#17. To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences and they can just be rich and famous. Their job is to write. Some really don't realize that. And you can't write unless you read.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#18. If you gave me just a coin for every time we say goodbyeWell I'd be rich beyond my dreams, I'm sorry for my weary lifeI know I'm not perfect but I can smileand I hope that you see this heart behind my tired eyes.
Dido Armstrong
#19. Rich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich.
T. Harv Eker
#20. She had three seconds in which to decide whether to be rich or spend the rest of her life as a housemaid.
She only needed one.
Pierre Lemaitre
#21. Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.
T. Harv Eker
#22. How clever of you, sir, to be rich rather than smart.
Charles Morey
#23. Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.
Philippe Petit
#24. I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.
George Crumb
#25. Be someone who lifts others higher, and your life will be rich. Be someone filled with gratitude, and there will be no end to the things for which you'll be thankful.
Ralph Marston
#26. What good is it to be rich if we canna scrape up the scratch to buy a political prisoner on a whim?
Kresley Cole
#27. I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory. I want to be rich and famous and kill myself like Jimi Hendrix.
Kurt Cobain
#28. If I had a dollar for every million-dollar idea I've had, I'd be rich.
Greg Meyer
#29. I want to be rich in all the foods I've tasted and all the places I've been and all the people I've kissed.
Sam Smith
#30. You deserve to be rich. You deserve to live a happy life. You deserve peace of mind. You deserve respect. You deserve loving relationships. And YES, it's all possible.
Maddy Malhotra
#31. He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
Mencius
#32. A goal is different from a wish. You may wish to be rich, but there's no responsibility for it. With a goal, it's on you to achieve it.
Robert Kiyosaki
#33. Talent is one thing, it is how you nurture and develop it, and never walk away from it. You can be rich, successful, you win awards, but it can always be better.
Kevin Spacey
#34. If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men.
Kirk Kerkorian
#35. People don't demand a say in how they're governed because they want to be rich. They demand it when they already are rich and crave something more.
Ramez Naam
#36. Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.
Benjamin Franklin
#37. Now I have children of my own. They ask their mother what will I be. Will I be handsome, will I be rich?
Jay Livingston
#38. I don't want to be rich. I'm not interested in money. Well, not money for the sake of it. I just want more life than Mother and Father want. Don't you ever want more? - Frank
Chris Priestley
#39. He eyed him with a curiosity which seemed to say, that he only wanted to know him to be rich, to be equally civil to him.
Jane Austen
#40. The immoral can no more earn respect
Than the envious be rich.
Thiruvalluvar
#41. In this life we are all fighting to be. Be something, be someone. Be rich, be happy, be successful. It's not enough to just BE.
Jennifer Calvert
#42. There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#43. If it's achievement that you place your value in, you're never going to achieve enough. If it's power, you always need to wield power over others. If it's money, you'll never be rich enough. But if you do something and are a part of what is happening, then you're always in it and it's always enough.
Jason Segel
#44. You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.
Nelson Algren
#45. If you desire to be rich with joy, you have to be truly dedicated to God and His work
Sunday Adelaja
#46. You may not be rich with money, Socrates was not, your life still has tremendous value.
Debasish Mridha
#47. Mine each experience for treasure,
and by the time you are old you will be rich.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#48. If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches!
Thomas Malthus
#49. Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich ...
Michael Lewis
#51. Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.
Jules Renard
#52. But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.
Roger Ebert
#53. By merely foreswearing violence and taking advantage of their unique position contiguous with the world's most creative people, the Palestinians could be rich and happy.
George Gilder
#54. Would it make you feel better to know that we all get the same number of hours in a day, days in a year? Some people might be rich and some might be poor, but none of them can buy time. It is one of the fairest systems in the world.
L. H. Cosway
#57. Most people are so stuck in their egos that everything revolves around me, me, and more me. But if you want to be rich in the truest sense of the word, it can't only be about you. It has to include adding value to other people's lives.
T. Harv Eker
#58. A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.
George Muller
#60. Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.
Juvenal
#61. Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
Victor Hugo
#62. There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.
Joseph Goebbels
#63. There is no regular system of taxation, but when the Emperor or the Bashaw want money, they levy on some rich man, and he has to furnish the cash or go to prison. Therefore, few men in Morocco dare to be rich.
Mark Twain
#64. There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.
E. Stanley Jones
#65. Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.
John C. Maxwell
#67. Perhaps it's when you come to the realization that the point of life isn't to be rich, or secure, or even to be loved - to be any of the things that people usually think is the point. The point of life is to live as deeply as possible, to experience fully. And that can be done in so many ways.
Theodora Goss
#68. If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be rich. 8.
Seneca.
#69. If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Apuleius
#70. Treasures are not for youth; at twenty years of age, one does not know how to be rich, or how to be loved.
Delphine De Girardin
#71. A farmer is always going to be rich next year.
Philemon
#73. After all, it was nice to be loved than to be rich and admired and famous.
L.M. Montgomery
#74. Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?
Confucius
#75. No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.
George MacDonald
#76. I think that in the earlier days, when I was a 'wantrepreneur,' I was really doing things because I thought what I wanted was to be rich.
Daymond John
#77. Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
Victor Hugo
#78. Anyone can be rich in promises.
Ovid
#79. To know you have enough is to be rich.
Laozi
#80. Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Euripides
#81. He that is rich need not live sparingly,
and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.
Benjamin Franklin
#82. The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people. To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
-Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) US-English essayist, editor, anthologist
Logan Pearsall Smith
#83. Here's one prophecy the writer can make - you'll never be rich and you'll probably be poor.
Chloe Thurlow
#84. Even so the more a vicious man denies his vice, the more does it insinuate itself and master him: as those people really poor who pretend to be rich get still more poor from their false display.
Plutarch
#85. I have an attorney. I'm looking to be rich like Harrison [Ford]. I'm trying to have planes and do all that stuff.
Harrison Ford
#86. This is an absolute law: You've got to be rich inside to become and remain rich outside. Become rich inside and your mental equivalent will manifest in your experience.
Mark Victor Hansen
#87. If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
Seneca The Younger
#88. Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
Nicolas Chamfort
#89. I have gone from local obscurity to national obscurity to international obscurity. Once I learn how to monetize obscurity, I will be rich.
Ernie J Zelinski
#90. Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.
Cathy Freeman
#91. If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee.
Francis Quarles
#92. To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.
Epicurus
#93. When I was a kid, I wanted to make my parents happy. I'd always say to them, "What do you want me to do? Do sports? Be rich? Be funny?" My mother would say, "Whatever we want from you, you already gave us - we wanted you to be alive, and you made it."
Etgar Keret
#94. No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.
Benjamin Rudyerd
#95. In defiance of all the tortue, of all the might, of all the malice of the world, the liberal man will ever be rich; for God's providence is his estate, God's wisdom and power are his defence, God's love and favor are his reward, and God's word is his security.
Isaac Barrow
#96. One of those things I never exactly cared for was that phobia of appearing to be rich. To become rich is a natural thing, a result of your work, that which you've done.
Antonio Ermirio De Moraes
#97. Somebody once asked me if I made a lot of money, I said I made enough. He then asked why do it, if I'm only making enough. And I said I don't do what I do to be rich in my wallet, I do what I do to be rich in life.
Lisa Abu-Bakr
#98. No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.
Og Mandino
#99. I had a couple of million dollars' worth of ... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.
Norman Rockwell
#100. Nobody can be rich and stupid for more than one generation.
Romano Prodi
