Wealth Quotes
3042 Wealth quotes by 1723 unique authors
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The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.
— Michel de Montaigne
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The crown and glory of life is character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and an estate in…
— Samuel Smiles
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When it comes to building character, wealth, good looks, athletic ability and even a high IQ are more likely to be impediments than advantages.
— Michael Josephson
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Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of…
— Benjamin Franklin
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According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice,…
— Jimmy Carter
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There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.
— Oprah Winfrey
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We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom…
— Asa Gray
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The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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The real wealth in Krishna Consciousness is Humility. We don't have to become a big devotee rather we have to become a Humble Devotee.
— Bhakti Charu Swami
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Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
— Benjamin Franklin
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He presented himself as the friend to Main Street America, and yet that aw-shucks persona ended up packaging policies and programs that were at times…
— Eugene Jarecki
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Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.
— Ian Schrager
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The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and its wealth.
— Paul Johnson
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Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty of the law…
— Paul Johnson
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Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over the whole range…
— Paul Johnson
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I was the child at school in second-hand or handmade clothes and, as I grew older, I craved material wealth, a big house and designer…
— Roz Savage
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The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must…
— Felix Dennis
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Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how…
— George Ayittey
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Wealth today has been created by a world view dominated by fast-moving networks, open information, bottom-up entrepreneurialism.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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