Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Wealth

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Tennessee Williams (1911–83) American Playwright

Gold is worse poison to men’s souls, doing more murders in this loathsome world, than any mortal drug.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.
Italian Proverb

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, “My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.”
Epictetus (55–135) Ancient Greek Philosopher

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in its train excessive poverty, as where the sun is highest, the shade is deepest.
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) English Writer, Poet

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
Socrates (469BCE–399BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher

He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don’t call that leading an idle life, do you?
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Journalist, Author

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
Christopher Marlowe (1564–93) English Playwright, Poet, Translator

As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645–96) French Satiric Moralist, Author

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.
Lane Kirkland (1922–99) American Labor Leader

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means.
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–89) English Poet, Writer

I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because the opportunity to make promising efforts in that direction has offered itself to us with a frequency out of all proportion to the European experience.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

There are not a few who believe in no God but Mammon, no devil but the absence of gold, no damnation but being poor, and no hell but an empty purse; and not a few of their descendants are living still.
Robert South (1634–1716) English Theologian, Preacher

When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.
Euripides (480–406 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
Sean O’Casey (1880–1964) Irish Dramatist, Memoirist

Investor: One who bought stocks that went up.
Malcolm S. Forbes (1919–1990) American Publisher, Businessperson

THERE was a man in our town, and he was wondrous rich;
He gave away his millions to the colleges and sich;
And people cried: The hypocrite! He ought to understand
The ones who really need him are the children of this land.
When Andrew Croesus built a home for children who were sick,
The people said they rather thought he did it as a trick,
And writers said: He thinks about the drooping girls and boys,
But what about conditions with the men whom he employs?
There was a man in our town who said that he would share
His profits with his laborers, for that was only fair,
And people said: Oh, isn’t he the shrewd and foxy gent?
It cost him next to nothing for that free advertisement.
There was a man in our town who had the perfect plan
To do away with poverty and other ills of man,
But he feared the public jeering, and the folks who would defame him,
So he never told the plan he had, and I can hardly blame him.
Franklin P. Adams (1881–1960) American Columnist, Radio Personality, Author

Agur said, “Give me neither poverty nor riches”; and this will ever be the prayer of the wise. Our incomes should be like our shoes: if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. But wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much, but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist

Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character.
Gary Ryan Blair

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
Cesare Pavese (1908–50) Italian Novelist, Poet, Critic, Translator

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Socrates (469BCE–399BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–73) British Novelist, Poet, Politician

He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith

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