Quotes About Riches

#1. Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make them better, but it is this inside-ness that matters most. Nothing else, at the last breath, matters, but your very own poetry. The glory of living.

Alex Ebert

#2. It is better to be hungry in joy, than to be filled in sorrow.

Dennis E. Adonis

#3. Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King himself often looking sad? Was anyone completely happy?

William Steig

#4. The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

Walter Savage Landor

#5. GRACE
GRACE is the GIFT of God's Riches' the PEACE of God, The LOVE of God, The HOPE of God.

Max Lucado

#6. I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#7. If there is so much blessing and joy even in a single encounter of brother with brother, how inexhaustible are the riches that open up for those who by God's will are privileged to live in the daily fellowship of life with other Christians!

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#8. A data bank holding all the information that is in this universe can be found in God

Sunday Adelaja

#9. Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.

Walter Wykes

#10. Why should the search for happiness be only or essentially material and mental? Aren't there untold riches too in the moral, the sentimental and the spiritual realms?

Robert Muller

#11. [God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.

James Hudson Taylor

#12. It is dangerous to become useless to God

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#13. Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

Jonathan Swift

#14. Holiness always exalts a person and brings him closer to God

Sunday Adelaja

#15. Nothing good about this but it's title. A priggish little yarn. And Hidden Riches is not a story
it's a machine. It creaks. It never made me forget for one instant that it was a story. Hence it isn't a story.

L.M. Montgomery

#16. Sticking to old and narrow views of life makes us look foolish in God

Sunday Adelaja

#17. Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.

Miguel De Cervantes

#18. There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

Jay Samit

#19. God's riches are sufficient to bless all humanity.

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#20. Stop listening to fairy that money grows on the tree

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#21. There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.

Roger Chamberlain

#22. Visualization Of, and Belief in Attainment of Desire: The Second Step toward Riches

Napoleon Hill

#23. 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

#24. If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with a whip in my hand to get them, I will do so. As the search may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love.

Confucius

#25. A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.

William Faulkner

#26. Displaying riches and titles with pride brings about one's downfall.

Laozi

#27. God knows what should be your priority and what should be beneficial for you

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#28. We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.

Calvin Coolidge

#29. 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

#30. Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.

Miguel De Cervantes

#31. Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.

Mother Teresa

#32. Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.

Euripides

#33. Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

Heloise

#34. Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way.

Rumi

#35. Never think of the riches of wisdom and knowledge hidden in Jesus as treasures without a key, or of your way as a path without a light. Jesus, your wisdom, is guiding you in the right way, even when you do not see it.

Andrew Murray

#36. If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches

Rainer Maria Rilke

#37. Benevolence is a world of itself
a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior.

Horace Mann

#38. The absence of specific knowledge about success is the reason why your journey along the path to success has been halted

Sunday Adelaja

#39. Of lunacy,
Innumerous were the causes; humbled pride,
Ambition disappointed, riches lost,
And bodily disease, and sorrow, oft
By man inflicted on his brother man;
Sorrow, that, made the reason drunk, and yet
Left much untasted. So the cup was fill'd.

Robert Pollok

#40. There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man rich. A rich man can't take his riches to heaven, but I'm taking my children

Adrian Rogers

#41. Gabriel's prayers of thanks were spontaneous and heartfelt. Here, in this room, he had an embarrassment of riches-a pretty, intelligent wife, who had a very large and giving heart, and a beautiful daughter.

Sylvain Reynard

#42. Ws 5:8 What hath pride profited us? or what advantage hath the boasting of riches brought us?

Various

#43. The sons of God are different because they are givers, just like their Heavenly father

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#44. I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making bricks, but never building.

George Eliot

#45. The road to riches is never straight and narrow. It can be riddled with financial land mines.

Kevin O'Leary

#46. The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty ... Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.

Anne Frank

#47. As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

Jean De La Bruyere

#48. Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal

Donald E. Williams Jr.

#49. We should not only attend church but must have a ministry in the church as well

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#50. A poem in the heart is worth
more than a million dollars
in the bank account.

Sanober Khan

#51. In order to have bread (a symbol of prosperity ) you have to first learn how to plough the land

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#52. Tell him that riches will not procure for you a single moment of happiness. Luxury consoles poverty alone, and at that only for a short time, until one becomes accustomed to it.

Alexander Pushkin

#53. You will find solution, if you have a passionate, strong desire to breakthrough

Sunday Adelaja

#54. Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that fairest of cities in the days of her glory, receives into its lap tribute of all the riches of the earth.

Frances Trollope

#55. He was finding it ruinously expensive to be rich.

Robert A. Heinlein

#56. Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

Harry Truman

#57. Serve the Lord and then your success will be with Joy

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#58. And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team/It seems we living the American dream but people highest up got the lowest self esteem/The prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings.

Kanye West

#59. I think most of us would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich we would be doing something else.

John Green

#60. 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

#61. You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

Lech Walesa

#62. If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.

Thomas Browne

#63. Success is relative. We shouldn't compare the financial success between a person born into riches and the one born into abject poverty.

Assegid Habtewold

#64. Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

Francis Bacon

#65. I felt for the first time the premonitory of loneliness.It was all fantastic, and yet, and yet ... He might be a poor lover, but I was a poor man. He had in his hand the infinite riches of respectability

Graham Greene

#66. Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches.

Elise Blackwell

#67. One always has riches when one has a book to read.

Jacqueline Winspear

#68. A learned man has always riches in himself.

Phaedrus

#69. God's secrets are always revealed to us, the children of God

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#70. Every relationship that we have with people today is either lifting us up or dragging us down

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#71. Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.

Benjamin Whichcote

#72. Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

Robert Burton

#73. It is a dangerous trap to believe that our search is over because we have gained all the riches we are going to have.

Eric Samuel Timm

#74. Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.

William Cowper

#75. Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars.

Austin O'Malley

#76. That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches.

Saint John Chrysostom

#77. We should be disciplined and responsible and then our prosperity will be stable despite any economic crisis, inflation or a change of government

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#78. Obedience unlocks the riches of the Christian experience. Prayer prompts and nurtures obedience, putting the heart into the proper "frame of mind" to desire obedience.
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R.C. Sproul

#79. He whose son is obedient to him, whose wife's conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is content with his riches, has his heaven here on earth.

Chanakya

#80. A good reputation may be worth millions,
but a good character is worth all the riches of the world.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#81. There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude that gives everything back its value. At a certain level of wealth, the heavens themselves and the star-filled night are nature's riches.

Albert Camus

#82. Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!

Samuel Johnson

#83. There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Billy Graham

#84. Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law

Henry Ward Beecher

#85. The saint is a good Welshwoman, and knows her countrymen. We are not quick in respect to rank or riches, we do not doff and bow and scrape when any man flaunts himself before us. We are blunt and familiar even in praise. What we value we value in the heart, and

Ellis Peters

#86. My friend, you see how perishable are the riches of this world; there is nothing solid but virtue,

Voltaire

#87. The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#88. In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches.

Shirley Bassey

#89. 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

#90. Victory, union, faith, identity, time,
The indissoluble compacts, riches, mystery,
Eternal progress, the kosmos, and the modern reports.
This, then, is life;
Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions."
-from "Starting from Paumanok

Walt Whitman

#91. Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.

Hazrat Ali R.A

#92. I saw that "success," "failure," "poverty", "riches," were price tags, money values of the market place which had mesmerized and sidetracked me for years.

Anzia Yezierska

#93. We should totally rely on God, then our success will always be stable and nothing would be able to shake it

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#94. One honest John Tompkins, a hedger & ditcher,
Although he was poor, did not want to be richer;
For all such vain wishes in him were prevented
By a fortunate habit of being contented.

Jane Taylor

#95. A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

Francesco Petrarca

#96. It is a common fate
a woman's lot
To waste on one the riches of her soul, Who takes the wealth she gives him, but cannot Repay the interest, and much less the whole.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#97. The more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that's of value.

Leonard Orr

#98. establish a new awareness of success. I move into the Winning Circle. I am a magnet for Divine Prosperity. I am blessed beyond my fondest dreams. Riches of every sort are drawn to me. Golden Opportunities are everywhere for me.

Louise L. Hay

#99. God is not interested in your wealth, riches or finances; God is interested in your blood and sweat to win more souls for His kingdom.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#100. 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