Riches Quotes

“Don't envy what people have, emulate what they did to have it.”
― Tim Fargo

“The difference between the rich and the poor, is finding true love.”
― Anthony Liccione

“We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to."

[Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727]”
― Alexander Pope, The Prose Works of Alexander Pope: The Major Works 1725-1744, Vol. II

“Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

“People who chase money without chasing any good reason for it are always brought down by the money they chase. Yes! If God gives you a gift, he adds it's manual that contains how to use it to it. However, if you chase something without receiving any authority from above, you will be tempted to throw it away because you can't find any good manual for it; Go, ask Judas Iscariot. He has more to say!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Isn't it enough to be middle-aged and impeccably beautiful? Why must one be economically useful?”
― Pietros Maneos

“Don't ever feel sad about who you are. Don't wish to be a daughter or son to a wealthy home, just because you think you're poor. Look! Everybody's poor, i discovered it when i realized that its not everything that President Barrack Obama has.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Money can buy some things to create happiness, but it can never buy happiness.”
― Ellen J. Barrier

“If I am to choose between integrity and wealth, I will go for integrity because I believe that lack of integrity is the first killer of wealthiest dreams!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“I have been branded with folly and madness for attempting what the world calls impossibilities, and even from the great engineer, the late James Watt, who said ... that I deserved hanging for bringing into use the high-pressure engine. This has so far been my reward from the public; but should this be all, I shall be satisfied by the great secret pleasure and laudable pride that I feel in my own breast from having been the instrument of bringing forward new principles and new arrangements of boundless value to my country, and however much I may be straitened in pecuniary circumstances, the great honour of being a useful subject can never be taken from me, which far exceeds riches.”
― Richard Trevithick, Life of Richard Trevithick 2 Volume Set: With an Account of his Inventions

“Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King himself often looking sad? Was anyone completely happy?”
― William Steig, The Real Thief

“A poem in the heart is worth
more than a million dollars
in the bank account.”
― Sanober Khan

“Our lives are marked by the people who choose to matter more: the teacher who encouraged our curiosity, the neighbor who lent a helping hand in time of need, the great leaders and perceptive thinkers whose vision and innovation improve the quality of our lives. And that's what it means to matter more. It's not about pursuit of riches or fame. It's about making a difference in people's lives. Remembered or not, lived out in a small town or on the world stage, the journey of relevance matters.”
― Marian Deegan, Relevance: Matter More

“There's poverty in wealth. If a man is wealthy without good health, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without children, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without God, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without giving alms, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without wisdom, is he not poor? Then there's a great lack in riches.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“The day will come when some more powerful man will get fame and riches from my invention, but nobody will believe that poor John Fitch can do anything worthy of attention.”
― John Fitch

“It was your covenant with the devil to exchange your soul for money and fame, so i won't be sorry for your damn f***ing soul, and the devil gat no time to refund what you had already sell, demons don't understand the meaning of sympathy, you should know that already, so, go make some dollar bill in hell, and come back and give me some.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Wealth is all misery and sickness to the brain, try not to put yourself deep in it, it shall erase your humanity feelings.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Material blessings fade and deteriorate, but your riches in Christ are everlasting.”
― Elizabeth George

“Paul says in Philippians 4:19, 'And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.' Our needs won't be met according to the destitution of the world or to the poverty of our own faith in the moment but according to the riches in Jesus. There's no one richer than him!”
― Stasi Eldredge, Becoming Myself: Embracing God's Dream of You

“People can have great riches, but without honesty, they never have true respect.
People can have abundant love, but without honesty, they never have real trust.
People can have many friends, but without honesty, they never have loyalty.
People can have sharp minds, but without honesty, they never have admiration.
People can have fame, but without honesty, they never have honor.
Without honesty, a person’s light may flicker, but it will never truly shine.
Without honesty, people are left with only lies.”
― Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness

“You put yourself in a tight corner of failure if you think "it's only the rich that get richer while the poor get poorer". No! Something good can come out from you no matter who you are, what you have done and where you have been to!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Success is relative. We shouldn't compare the financial success between a person born into riches and the one born into abject poverty.”
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

“Man is but lost in wishes,
Of wealth, fame and riches,
This airy castle he stitches,
With logic that are his ditches.”
― Munindra Misra, Pt. Kanhaiya Lal Misra - My Father

“Times like this, I don't wish for ignorance. I look around and I see the bloated ignorance of the lumpen proletariat: roly-poly, sausage-fingered, ginger-topped fathers of at least two illegitimate children trying to massage the asses of waiflike, peroxide-scarred students who are themselves trying to navigate adulthood with their new-found freedom from outdated parenting.”
― Ayize Jama-Everett, The Liminal People

“If you are not selfish and greedy, you picked up riches along the street.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

“The wealthiest Person on earth is one who is free from the love of Money”
― Andrew Darrah

“You don't need to know why God sent you to the earth before you say "yes" to what He sent you for! He wants you to prosper and he is the only one who knows "how?"!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“My best form of investment is paying my tithe and offering.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“If you can't love me in my rugs, you don't deserve me in my riches”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive

“Talent is divinely gifted, and never to be cheaply exchanged for the sake of trinkets and fame.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence