To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires. — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The Ragamuffin rabble are the unsung assembly of saved sinners who are little in their own sight, conscious of their brokenness and… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order to derive a permanent future income from it… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
When you have a pile of bills that you have no idea how you are going to pay, you cannot focus on… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
Regardless of what we think we know and should happen the reality is that a lot of stock action is random. Therefore,… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune. — Horace Copy Share Image
The idols of today are unmistakable - self-esteem without achievement, sex without consequences, wealth without responsibility, pleasure without struggle and experience without… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Now, it’s true that some of the protesters are oddly dressed or have silly-sounding slogans, which is inevitable given the open character… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
If you have questions about how people earn their wealth, for crying out loud, the Clintons have a way of doing it… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Even if we lose the wealth of thousands, and our life is sacrificed, we should keep smiling and be cheerful keeping our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“If you understand that a wasted time is a wasted life, you will start running away from television, you will begin to… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
If you're an adult and still think material wealth leads to happiness, might I suggest not being a moron. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
That is the story of our history - whether it's the pursuit of prosperity for our people or the struggle for equality… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world! — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
Possessing material comforts in no way guarantees happiness. Only spiritual wealth can bring true true happiness. — Konosuke Matsushita Copy Share Image
Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home. — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I often repeat three numbers: 20-23-26. Quebec generates only 20 per cent of Canada's wealth; it represents 23 per cent of the… — Philippe Couillard Copy Share Image
My kids cost me a fortune, but it is a small price to pay for the treasures they bestow upon me. — Joanne Coccimiglio Copy Share Image
A good life with contentment is itself a great wealth. For we brought nothing with us into this world, and we can… — Saint Timothy Copy Share Image
There are few problems in the world that economic prosperitycannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierceattack. The… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
I have drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
An independent Scotland - like all countries - will face challenges, and we will have our ups and downs. But the decisions… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make… — Pericles Copy Share Image
Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom. — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
I never felt sorry for the people in 'Friends' though. They had enormous wealth and they were very funny, creative people who… — Helen Baxendale Copy Share Image
