Top 100 Quotes About Riches
#1. The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility.
Rama Swami
#2. Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous.
Samuel Johnson
#3. What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
Orison Swett Marden
#4. Philosophy, with the aid of experience, has at length banished the study of alchymy; and the present age, however desirous of riches, is content to seek them by the humbler means of commerce and industry.
Edward Gibbon
#5. Or some people may yearn for riches, not for money's sake but in order to send their children to college or provide themselves with the freedom and time for study and reflection which are necessary for their own spiritual growth. It is not power or money that such people love; it is humanity.
M. Scott Peck
#6. To find riches is a beggar's dream, but to find love is the dream of kings.
Sidney Sheldon
#7. I love energy. I love it. And I pursue it, and I want more of it. Physical and mental energy, to me, are the greatest riches of human life. And TM is like a free account of an endless amount of it.
Jerry Seinfeld
#8. What is it worth to possess the riches of the world, when a man comes to face Eternity?
Charles Studd
#9. Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure.
Samuel Johnson
#10. If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?
Benjamin Franklin
#11. The child's existence turned a plain world to riches. Her life raised up like this, the child giving point and purpose to each day, the care of him transforming her, widening and deepening her.
Mary Costello
#12. Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind.
John Adams
#13. Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.
Samuel Johnson
#14. If you work long enough and hard enough to understand yourself, you will come to discover that this vast part of your mind, of which you now have little awareness, contains riches beyond imagination.
M. Scott Peck
#15. These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.
Seneca The Younger
#16. Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.
Immanuel Kant
#17. Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
Louisa May Alcott
#18. I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
Horace
#19. The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
Plutarch
#20. We are a country that lacks riches. The Jewish brain, that's what we have. Everything that we've had and will have in this country is the direct and clear product of higher education. If we harm this system, we will drastically decline and cease to exist.
Aaron Ciechanover
#21. God has blessed me with more than I need. I'm rich. I will not trust in riches but in Him who richly provides. Because I have more, I will give more and do more.
Craig Groeschel
#22. Riches, the dumb god that giv'st all men tongues, / That canst do nought, and yet mak'st men do all things; / The price of souls; even hell, with thee to boot, / Is made worth heaven!
Ben Jonson
#23. In an era when America is still too divided by race and by riches, Judge [Samuel] Alito has not written one single opinion on the merits in favor of a person of color alleging race discrimination on the job: in 15 years on the bench, not one.
Edward Kennedy
#24. That was the attraction of the sirens: not promises of power or riches, but bewildering, tantalizing prophecies that made men leap from their ships to go ask the crazy bitches what the fuck they were talking about.
Kevin Hearne
#25. Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on to evil.
Posidonius
#26. Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.
Wilfred Grenfell
#27. It is a wealthy person, indeed, who calculates riches not in gold but in friends.
Jim Stovall
#28. Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.
Lew Wallace
#29. Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
Miguel De Cervantes
#30. Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.
Thomas Browne
#31. Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.
Pierre Charron
#32. Then again, what seems like nothing in the eyes of the world, when properly valued and put to use, can be among the greatest riches.
Chris Gardner
#33. What He was, He laid aside; what He was not, He assumed. He takes upon Himself the poverty of my flesh so that I may receive the riches of His divinity.
Gregory Of Nazianzus
#34. Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
Desiderius Erasmus
#35. Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.
Plutarch
#36. Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
John Dryden
#37. God's word to me - new every day - in the infinite riches of interpretation.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#39. Riches and honor are what everyone desires, but if they can be gained only by doing evil, they must not be held. Don't worry about not being in office, worry about qualifying yourself for office. Don't worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known.
Confucius
#40. The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment.
Leo Tolstoy
#41. Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.
Ambrose
#42. Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.
Fulton J. Sheen
#44. How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is boundless, the more you search for it the greater the riches you will find; let us search unceasingly and let us not stop until we have found it.
Brother Lawrence
#45. People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to wipe away the dirt and dust that may come in the course of life.
Anthony Liccione
#46. Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#47. You never find riches on a well trodden path.
Jeffrey Fry
#48. Ah yes, jobs. Once upon a time, souls were traded for immortality or riches. Now we are bought and sold with the promise of jobs. The human spirit is devalued currency. How the devil must be laughing.
Jamie Delano
#49. No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches, there is more than enough for all.
Wallace D. Wattles
#50. A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
Richard Burton
#51. Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.
Knut Hamsun
#52. All flesh is grass. and all its glory fades
Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind;
Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream;
The man we celebrate must find a tomb,
And we that worship him, ignoble graves.
William Cowper
#53. We can tell that a good name is better than riches by those who prefer the riches.
Kin Hubbard
#54. There the old Eskimo hunters she had known in her childhood thought the riches of life were intelligence, fearlessness, and love. A man with these gifts was rich and was a great spirit who was admired in the same way that the gussaks admired a man with money and goods.
Jean Craighead George
#55. I believe when you integrate charity in your craft and not just think of the fame and riches it would entitle you with, you will feel this true sense of fulfillment. Carry on your mission, of where God destined you to be- to use His gifts in good ways and not just for yourself.
Elizabeth E. Castillo
#56. Lord! Give me that intelligence, so I may realize the Self.
Give me spiritual riches, so I may learn better to share.
Give me that knowledge, where pupils come from everywhere,
So I may serve better.
Gian Kumar
#57. Riches, power and fame last only for a few years! Why do people cling so desperately to these transitory things? Why can't people who have more than they need for themselves give that surplus to their fellow citizens? Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?
Anne Frank
#58. Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents.
Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
Mother Teresa
#59. Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.
Napoleon Hill
#60. Brother Cannon remarked that people wondered how many wives and children I had. He may inform them that I shall have wives and children by the million, and glory, and riches, and power, and dominion, and kingdom after kingdom, and reign triumphantly
Brigham Young
#61. The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.
Matthew Henry
#62. I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.
Benjamin Disraeli
#63. A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
Anonymous
#64. Dreams, I thought. They're the riches of a poor person, stashed in treasure chests buried deeply in the imagination. But are dreams enough?
V.C. Andrews
#65. Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
Charles Caleb Colton
#66. I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.
Napoleon Hill
#67. But desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. The
Laurence Sterne
#68. I got to sing solo in the junior choir when I was 10 or 11 and won a competition, and my sister's piano playing improved to a certain level. One time my sister and I worked together. The first song we ever sang in High School was Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett.
Gordon Lightfoot
#70. The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody's poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur's efforts.
Ludwig Von Mises
#71. To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
Akhenaton
#72. My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.
Joseph Brotherton
#73. 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
#74. A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.
Jean De La Bruyere
#75. Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#76. You have to, in a way, just get your head down and do the work and not expect every day to bring riches and not expect every minute to bring wild excitement, 'cause it just doesn't. It doesn't on films, anyway.
Martin Freeman
#77. The day will come when some more powerful man will get fame and riches from my invention, but nobody will believe that poor John Fitch can do anything worthy of attention.
John Fitch
#78. On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death.
Jamaica Kincaid
#79. And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour:
Anonymous
#80. If I can only keep my good name, I shall have riches enough.
Plautus
#81. What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence.
Anita Desai
#82. Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking off so much of the pleasures of this world, and there's only so much to go around.
Dorothy Stang
#83. God will supply our needs according to His riches.
Joel Osteen
#84. Sunken fleets of streaming gold are superior to all other surrounding vessels upon the raging waters, for if submerged riches were meant to be and eternally remain hidden to the naked eye, I would wish it to be so, as long as reaching hands are placed as pure
Aaron Ozee
#85. I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.
Philip Johnson
#86. Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.
Patrick DeWitt
#87. Warning which needs to be repeated is that "the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches," and the lust for other things, will choke out the life of God in us (Matthew 13:22).
Oswald Chambers
#88. I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
Mark Twain
#89. It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.
Saint Augustine
#90. Fundraising is a very rich and beautiful activity. It is a confident, joyful and hope-filled expression of ministry. In ministering to each other, each from the riches that he or she possesses, we work together for the full coming of God's Kingdom.
Henri Nouwen
#91. Give me neither poverty nor riches but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, "Who is the Lord?" Or I may become poor and steal and so dishonor the name of my God.
Anonymous
#92. The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
Arthur Helps
#93. Every church or individual Christian who claims to be Spirit-led must be Word-fed. If we want to know more of the Spirit's power in our lives, we would be wise to fill ourselves with the riches of his
Bob Kauflin
#94. True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.
Ellen G. White
#95. This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners; for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not ours but Christ's, and Christ's righteousness is not Christ's but ours.
Martin Luther
#96. The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity ... he and his people took millions from the state treasurer and left cemeteries full of people who had died of hunger, cemeteries visible from the windows of the royal palace
Haile Selassie
#97. Tragedy of life: we want to possess more material wealth, but fail to enjoy the spiritual riches.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#98. Was Mann himself fully aware of all the facets of his irony? Probably not - any more than Shakespeare was fully aware of all the riches subsequent critics have found in his plays.
Philip Kitcher
#99. If riches increase, set not your hearts upon them: so if friends increase, set not your hearts upon them, but trust in the living God, let it be the living God that you rest on even for all outward things in this world.
Jeremiah Burroughs
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