Riches Quotes
Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.
It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.
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.
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.
Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.
A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.
Knowledge and know-how are the real sources of value and riches. You can learn anything you need to learn to achieve any goal you can set for yourself.
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.
The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.
Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms
Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.
Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.
Barack didn't pledge riches, only a life that would be interesting. On that promise he delivered.
My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.
Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.
Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.
Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.
Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?
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.
Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to acquiesce in what is Thy will.
The real riches of yoga cannot be seen; they are felt and experienced from the inside out.
The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.