Quotes about Wealth
As kids we didn't complain about being poor we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.
— Jay-Z
Today's wealthy are poor though they don't know it. They can't bring their possessions to where we're all going.
— Elie Wiesel
Money holds terrible power when it is loved.
— Elisabeth Elliot
May God help us to judge ourselves by the eternities that separate the Aucas from a comprehension of Christmas and Him, who, though He was rich, yet for our sakes became poor so that we might, through His poverty, be made rich. "Lord, God, speak to my own heart and give me to know Thy Holy will and the joy of walking in it. Amen.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Material blessings fade and deteriorate, but your riches in Christ are everlasting.
— Elizabeth George
Doänt thou marry for munny, but goä wheer munny is!
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.
— Alistair Begg
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
— Oscar Wilde
Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.
— Isabel Allende
Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
— St. John Chrysostom