Riches Quotes
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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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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
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The Europeans looked down on the Black world and condescended to touch nothing but its riches.
Cheikh Anta Diop
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Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work!
Napoleon Hill
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Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.
Francis Bacon
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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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Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God.
Martin Luther
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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If you are poor, live wisely. If you have riches, live wisely. It is not your station in life but your heart that brings blessings.
Gautama Buddha
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Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.
Napoleon Hill
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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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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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When we are on the beach we only see a small part of the ocean. However, we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. We only see a small part of God's great love, a few jewels of His great riches, but we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. The best is yet to come, when we see Jesus face-to-face.
Corrie Ten Boom
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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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Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.
Horace Greeley
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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.
Josiah Strong
