Riches Quotes
694 quotes by 505 authors
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
— Francis Bacon
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Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
— Gamaliel Bailey
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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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…
— Akhenaton
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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
— Edmund Burke
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A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
— Richard Burton
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Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase,…
— Robert Burton
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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
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If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
— Dale Carnegie
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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…
— Muhammad Ali
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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…
— Red Cloud
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Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
— William Cobbett
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Never look at the visible supply; always look at the limitless riches in the formless substance and know that they are coming to you as…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.
— Joseph Brotherton
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In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of acquiring riches, there…
— Erik Dammann
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Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.
— Nachman of Breslov
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