The Rich Young Man Quotes

#1. The real challenge the rich young man faced was not just giving up his possessions, but giving up himself. The last command Jesus says ("Come, follow me") is the one that we so often overlook and think that he must have left Jesus simply because he liked his green bills.

George Weigel

#2. Is this the same teaching, when Christ says to the rich young man, "Sell all that thou hast, and give it to the poor"; and when the priest says, "Sell all that thou hast and...give it to me"?

Soren Kierkegaard

#3. A man is never too young to kill, never too wise, never too strong, but he can damn well be too rich.

Pierce Brown

#4. Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold; neither can it be heaped up as are the riches of the world today. The rich man has cast off his Divinity, and has clung to his gold. And the young today have forsaken their Divinity and pursue self-indulgence and pleasure.

Khalil Gibran

#5. Whether we are rich or poor, young or old, man or woman, straight or gay: all of us are called to our own brand of personal holiness.

James Martin

#6. Suddenly she was all too aware how different she was. A woman among all these man. A natural from a humble background among rich young men chosen from powerful families. A beginner among the well trained.

Trudi Canavan

#7. Young man, Mr. Aubrey has made us so rich that we can now afford to worry about our image.

David Halberstam

#8. It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.

Andrew Carnegie

#9. My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.

Stendhal