Wealth And Virtues Quotes

#1. The only wealth that mattered was affinity and generosity. Affinity towards oneself and generosity towards the world itself.

Soroosh Shahrivar

#2. In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

Socrates

#3. When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time.

Sunday Adelaja

#4. If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

Eric Cantona

#5. If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.

Francis Quarles

#6. There are more life forms in a handful of forest soil than there are people on the planet. A mere teaspoonful contains many miles of fungal filaments. All these work the soil, transform it, and make it so valuable for the trees.

Peter Wohlleben

#7. We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.

William Shenstone

#8. For a nation to be truly wealthy, it must possess a wealth of virtues.

Sunday Adelaja

#9. The prevailing conception is that education must be such as will enable one to acquire enough wealth to live on the plane of the bourgeoisie. That kind of education does not develop the aristocratic virtues. It neither encourages reflection nor inspires reverence for the good.

Richard M. Weaver

#10. We must remember that the only true wealth we have is the freedom of another human, not their entrapment.

Lujan Matus

#11. The percentage of the citizenry that embrace and identify with the nation's virtues, with the nation's value system, determine the true wealth of that nation

Sunday Adelaja

#12. Unfortunately, we do not often see the advantages in the power of values and virtues. We are easily taken away by physical wealth, material possessions and the power of money.

Sunday Adelaja

#13. As a nation, develop your wealth of virtues and watch yourself live better than most countries who brag themselves in their virtues of natural wealth

Sunday Adelaja

#14. He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Benjamin Franklin

#15. The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.

Paul Schrader

#16. Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two nobler virtues, industry and frugality, which tend more to increase the wealth, power and grandeur of the community, than all the others without them.

Benjamin Franklin

#17. I fear not," Hamilcar said gravely, shaking his head. "It seems to be the fate of all nations, that as they grow in wealth so they lose their manly virtues. With wealth comes corruption, indolence, a reluctance to make sacrifices, and a weakening of the feeling of patriotism.

G.A. Henty

#18. Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Samuel Johnson

#19. They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#20. Material wealth don't just come and go, they come to stay as long as the virtues remain in the fabric of a nation

Sunday Adelaja

#21. The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.

Martin Seligman

#22. The truth therefore is that great nations become great not because of their amount of wealth an Great nations become great thanks to their wealth of truth, honesty and other virtues the natural resources.

Sunday Adelaja

#23. When you have a distaste for what is not yours, you have set the stage for what is yours.

Paul Enenche

#24. Life and history have repeatedly taught us that values and virtues are far much stronger than the physical wealth we often see. For material wealth emanates from values and virtues.

Sunday Adelaja

#25. As chaste as unsunned snow.

William Shakespeare

#26. Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.
And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?

Lisa Kleypas

#27. Every creative act, however small, enriches our species and the world around us. To find and nurture talent, is to be truly wealthy.

Stewart Stafford

#28. Wealth without pride is the way of the great sage.

Akinari Ueda