Bolts Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty and obscurity…

— Confucius

Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

— Henry David Thoreau

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a…

— Mark Twain

In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money…

— Herbert Croly

Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.

— John Stuart Mill

Men get together in pretentious councils to decide what God is, what God thinks, what God wants the rest of us to do for…

— Barbara G. Walker

Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

— Francis Bacon

What is really desired, under the name of riches, is essentially, power over men ... this power ... is in direct proportion to the…

— John Ruskin

Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with…

— Roger Chamberlain

There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not…

— John Milton