Measure Of Wealth Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The measure of wealth is the ability to afford ones' mistakes.

Elyse Wilk

#3. Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life, not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving, not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness, not by our seeming greatness.

William Arthur Ward

#4. The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it.

George S. Clason

#5. The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

George Bancroft

#6. The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money.

Benjamin Jowett

#7. All things for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men worked to produce them in the measure of their strength, and since it is not possible to evaluate everyone's part in the production of the world's wealth ... All is for all!

Peter Kropotkin

#8. 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.

Sydney Madwed

#9. Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

Tamora Pierce

#10. Desire is insatiable as death, but He who fills all in all can fill it. The capacity of our wishes who can measure? But the immeasurable wealth of God can more than overflow it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#11. 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

#12. A man should never measure his wealth in achievements or personal riches, but rather by his love for her. She is more than a woman; she is a queen. She is more than the world; she is your universe.

Chris Flores

#13. It is easy to forget the decadence of glass. How some of us find it only in fragments. The glass between us and the world is often the measure of our wealth. Looking out at the world through it colors the hunger beyond.

Chris Abani

#14. He is a poor man who can only measure his wealth in dollars.

Woodrow M. Kroll

#15. No happiness exists without its woe, no wealth without its cost, and no life without its full measure, sooner or later, of sorrowing and death.

Gregory David Roberts

#16. The premise that America's power and influence was rooted in its wealth was wrong to begin with. To the contrary, our strength comes from America's magical stuff. It is something intangible, something invulnerable, something no measure of evil, no amount of violence or bloodshed can destroy.

Rick Elkin

#17. Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#18. Don't measure your wealth by how many things you have. Measure your wealth by how many things you have that you wouldn't take money for.

Myrlie Evers

#19. Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of the abysses into which she penetrates, in the effort
the unsuccessful effort
to house and contain the eternal thought, we may measure the greatness of the divine mind.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#20. To obtain wealth beyond measure, seek to make more friends than money.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#21. I have tried hard to be a good person and to leave the world a better place. To feel that I have in any small way succeeded is to me a prize beyond measure, the most wonderful wealth that I could ask for, a form of prosperity that I would wish for the whole world to experience and enjoy.

Roz Savage

#22. The American Dream became America's god; wealth and abundance have become the measure of America's success. But - as recent events have shown - we have been living an illusion.

Billy Graham

#23. The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of the poverty of a nation is marked by the degree in which it neglects and abandons the care of its own industry, leaving it exposed to the action of foreign powers.

Henry Clay

#24. Measure your life not by the dimension of your bank account but by the expansion of your kindness and love.

Debasish Mridha

#25. Never use money to measure wealth, son.

Robert Duvall

#26. Wherefore it is impossible to succeed in comparing wealth of different eras or different nations. This, in political economy, like squaring the circle in mathematics, is impracticable, for want of a common mean or measure to go by.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#27. True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.

Eric Liu

#28. The ideas by which people ... interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#29. Measure of life is not by the wealth or splendor but by the love you have given away.

Debasish Mridha

#30. Wealth is a measure of a person's ability to survive so many days forward.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#31. If you always try to measure yourself with
money ... well, it's like counting backwards, the more you
keep on, the less you'll have to show for it.

Steven J. Carroll

#32. Measure your wealth not by the things you have, but by the things for which you would not take money.

Dave Ramsey

#33. True patriots believe that we should measure a citizen's worth by contribution to country and community, not by wealth or power-that those whom America has benefited most should contribute in proportion to their good fortune-and that serving others should be esteemed more highly than serving self.

Eric Liu

#34. True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulates. The inner character of a person - the undergirding moral and spiritual values and commitments - is the true measure of lasting greatness.

Billy Graham

#35. The real measure of your "wealth" is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#36. Tiny Giggles
Silly giggles of laughter
I store upon a shelf
I give some to other
I save some for myself
I am rich beyond all measure
Though not with worldly wealth
I store up these treasures
For my heart and soulful health.

Muse

#37. How can I be secure? (Pause.) Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what's beyond measure? That's a sickness. That's a trap. There is no measure. Only greed.

David Mamet