Pride Quote by Lydia Maria Francis Child

“virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue.”

— Plato

“As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those…

— James Lee Burke

“And so they grow richer and richer, and the more they think of making a fortune the less they think of virtue; for when…

— Plato

“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“We should tell ourselves, once and for all, that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, independent, and…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Prosperity depends on ferocity.”

— Anthony Doerr

“The lasting sweetness of the wealth obtained is directly proportional to the honesty of its source. Dishonest wealth does not last.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“The dignity of folly And just as tyranny of truth and science could increase esteem for the lie, a tyranny of prudence could spur…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“reflect how pleasant it is to demand nothing, how noble it is to be contented and not to be dependent upon Fortune.”

— Seneca

“Let us be dissatisfied as long as we have a wealth of creeds and poverty of deeds.”

— Richard LeMieux

“Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.”

— Kurt Vonnegut