Riches Quotes
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Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.
Napoleon Hill -
And after ye have obtained a hope in Christ ye shall obtain riches, if ye seek them; and ye will seek them for the intent to do good-to clothe the naked, and to feed the hungry, and to liberate the captive, and administer relief to the sick and the afflicted.
L. Tom Perry
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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 -
Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.
Francis Bacon -
If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.
Confucius -
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 -
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 -
Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work!
Napoleon Hill
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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 -
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 -
These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.
Seneca the Younger -
My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.
Diana Ross -
The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.
William Cobbett -
We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.
Ahmed Sekou Toure
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For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.
Plato -
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 -
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God.
Martin Luther -
If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.
Napoleon Hill -
Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.
Horace Greeley
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But I'm alone on my throne All these riches
Nicki Minaj -
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 -
Riches begin in the form of thought.
Napoleon Hill -
The Europeans looked down on the Black world and condescended to touch nothing but its riches.
Cheikh Anta Diop