Riches Quotes

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde

Real, Soul, Cannot

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
Muhammad Ali

Give, Rich, Wish

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
Confucius

Life, Death, Heaven

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli

Good, Greatest, Him

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Plato

Children, Parents, Spirit

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.
Nelson Mandela

Rich, Poverty, Able

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Napoleon Hill

Idea, Beginning, Earned

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
Akhenaton

Wisdom, Mind, Greatest

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
Plato

Poverty, Community, Nor

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Karl Marx

Men, History, Fight

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Life, Yourself, Daily

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
Martin Luther

Nothing, Else, Lord

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
Dale Carnegie

Worry, Stop, Worrying

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
Martin Luther

God, Pride, Pleasure

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Power, True, State

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
Sun Tzu

Money, Long, Lives

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Thomas Carlyle

Mind, Blessing, Fortune

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
Billy Graham

Men, Nothing, Wrong

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
Henry Ward Beecher

Life, End, Instrument

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Made, Possession, Treasures

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Horace Greeley

Character, Fame, Accident

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Red Cloud

Love, Peace, Good

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
Samuel Johnson

Her, Nation, She

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
Orison Swett Marden

Power, Home, Heart

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson

Wise, Him, Cannot

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
Edmund Burke

Limits, Founded, Principal

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Epicurus

Happy, Away, Desires

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men, Give, Away

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Money, Selfish, Others

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Francis Bacon

Good, Poor, Mistress

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