Riches Quotes
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Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
Napoleon Hill
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I am not greedy of money myself, but the monotony of always screwing and paring is more tiresome than the monotony of riches.
Annie French Hector
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If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.
Confucius
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Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work!
Napoleon Hill
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My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.
Diana Ross
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The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit : Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.
Baruch Spinoza
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Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.
Immanuel Kant
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There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.
Napoleon Hill
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If an abundance of those things which a people considers the goods and the riches of the earth defines wealth, then it follows that that particular culture is wealthy in proportion to the production and distribution of just those things and no others; and it does not depend upon what another people may consider the goods and riches, no matter how greatly those things have multiplied for them, nor how many individuals they have to possess them. What industrialism counts as the goods and riches of the earth the agrarian South does not, nor ever will.
Andrew Nelson Lytle
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These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.
Seneca the Younger
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If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.
William Cobbett
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We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.
Ahmed Sekou Toure
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It is commonly said that covetousness is one of the reigning sins of old age. How strange that it should be so! Especially considering what they have seen, and known, and it may be, felt of the emptiness and uncertainty of riches. They have witnessed how often they make themselves wings. What! And not yet convinced! What! Almost at the end of thy journey, and yet loading thyself with thick clay! Think of the time of day. It is almost night; even sun-set. And art thou unmindful of the grave? The body is bending downwards, let the heart be upwards.
Philip Henry
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The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.
Saint Augustine
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Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God.
Martin Luther