Acquire Quote by Henry Ward Beecher Download Open image “Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.” — Henry Ward Beecher ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acquire Men Money Pleasure Wealth
Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the enthusiasm of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last. — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging. — Euripides Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue it - and the more we seem to acquire it - the more we take… — Mike Aquilina Copy Share Image
Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth now, will… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it? — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both. It… — Peter Martins Copy Share Image
You can't know it all. No matter how smart you are, no matter how comprehensive your education, no matter how wide ranging your experience,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
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