Quotes

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
-Aeschylus

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-Winston Churchill

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty an' wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard

Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they are obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.
-Confucius

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
-John D. Rockefeller

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
-Henry David Thoreau

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
-John D. Rockefeller

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.
-Henry David Thoreau

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
-Epictetus

I am not worthy of the wealth I owe, nor dare I say 'tis mine, and yet it is; but, like a timorous thief, most fain would steal what law does vouch mine own.
-William Shakespeare

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
-Benjamin Franklin

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
-Charles Caleb Colton

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
-Edward Young

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
-John Kenneth Galbraith

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
-Wendell Phillips

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.
-Charles Caleb Colton

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?.
-Henry David

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
-Euripides

Thou shouldst not become presumptuous through much treasure and wealth; for in the end it is necessary for thee to leave all.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
-Benjamin Franklin

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
-Henry David Thoreau

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
-Edmund Burke

Our true wealth is the good we do in this world. None of us has faith unless we desire for our neighbors what we desire for ourselves.
-Mohammed

Wealth and children are the adornment of life.
-quran

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
-John Dewey

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
-Margaret Thatcher

After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.
-Norman Thomas

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
-George Santayana

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
-Akhenaton

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
-Henry David Thoreau

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
-Mark Twain

Wealth unused might as well not exist.
-Aesop

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
-Wendell Phillips

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
-Kahlil Gibran

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.
-Lane Kirkland

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
-Edmund Burke

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there isn't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
-Josh Billings

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
-Kahlil Gibran