“Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire,(...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on… — John N. Gray Copy Share Image
We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to 'not lose', as opposed to playing to win… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
We are not satisfied with peace alone. There has to be prosperity, there has to be affluence, there has to be fulfillment… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
“Every opportunity, every influence and affluence you possess, could not have been for you alone, but to act as a platform to… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
...piling up zeros in your bank account, or cars in your driveway, won't in and of itself make you successful. Rather, true… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Many Christians and Christian leaders have been neutralized by the love of money and materialism. The homage paid to affluence becomes a… — John Wimber Copy Share Image
“You put yourself in a tight corner of failure if you think "it's only the rich that get richer while the poor… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“The Vikings thought they were big shots because they had boats. You know how obnoxious people get when they own a boat.… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
To generate any appreciable degree of long-term affluence requires scrupulous honesty and the willingness to honor long-term agreements with employers, suppliers, partners,… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image
I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused the ultra-rich to think not just of themselves and increasing their own… — Jamie Johnson Copy Share Image
The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image
Consider the cost when Christians ignore Jesus commands to sell their possessions and give to the poor and instead choose to spend… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Those peculiar social sensibilities nourished by our own peculiar political principles, while they enhancethe true dignity of a prosperous American, do but… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We must understand what our idea of wealth is. Is it just about more buildings, more machines, more cars, more of everything?… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“Granted, many of them replied, that socialism may not result in riches for all but rather in a smaller production of wealth;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality. — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
The secret of achieving prosperity lies in so vividly keeping yourself centered in the inner focus of affluence that you literally exude… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
“Sometimes transitional periods in life leave you feeling like a great big jumble of loose, split ends.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“People live in different worlds. There's a rich world, there's a poor world, and there's an extremely poor. The one you dwell… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Being wealthy is often a powerful predictor that people spend less time doing pleasurable things and more time doing compulsory things and… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“It’s not surprising that those of us who have “time affluence” rather than material affluence report greater overall life satisfaction.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In recent times no problem has been more puzzling to thoughtful people than why, in a troubled world, we make such poor… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Influence creates affluence. Affluence does not create influence. Affluence makes you more of who you already are.” — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
“Money is not the priority. A step to dream big and planning of your dreams is a premier action that will see… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“If I am to choose between integrity and wealth, I will go for integrity because I believe that lack of integrity is… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Affluence, unboundedness, and abundance are our natural states. We need only to restore the memory of what we already know. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image