Achieve greatness Quote by Maria S. Cummins

“There is the family of our birth and then there is a more noble world to which we really belong; the richness of this…

— Lewis Hyde

“But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury. Moreover, a people becomes avaricious and luxurious…

— Augustine of Hippo

“Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”

— Plato

“Poor is what people become, not what they are born to be.”

— Saji Ijiyemi

“You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is. Wealth has given me enormous power. It gave me at the very outset…

— Oscar Wilde

“The life of man is so short that ordinary people simply cannot afford to be born”

— Halldór Laxness

“The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the…

— Walter Isaacson

“Some are born rich While others poor; Some are born free While others captives; Some are born blessed While others deprived; Some are born…

— Emmanuel Aghado

“If it is true that one is poor on account of all the things one wants, the ambitious and the avaricious languish in extreme…

— Jean de La Bruyère

“To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born.”

— A.P. Gouthe

“We live in a world of fortune and luxury, yet how poor and sad we are at times.”

— Rachel Hauck

“For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery