Riches Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.
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Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.
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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.
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Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work!
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There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.
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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.
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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.
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These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.
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Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God.
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There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in charity.
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My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.
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The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.
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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.
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Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.
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We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.
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Riches begin in the form of thought.
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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
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You could have all the riches in the world, but it doesn't mean much without family.
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But I'm alone on my throne All these riches
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The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.
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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.
