#Riches Quotes

“Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less; I have more clothes, but am nit so warm; more armor, but less courage; more books, but less wit.”

“It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.”

“The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.”

“Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.”

“No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.”

“There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.”

“Riches begin in the form of thought.”

“The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny”

“The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.”

“Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.”

“Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.”

“All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.”

“Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.”

“If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.”

“Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work!”

“That man is rich indeed who has more friends than enemies, fears no one, and is so busy building that he has no time to devote to tearing down another's hopes and plans.”

“When riches begin to come they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.”

“If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads toward poverty.”

“There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.”

“Health is the greatest possession.”

“To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.”

“He who is contented is rich.”

“Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work... men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.”

“It is wealth to be content.”

“O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.”

“Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.”

“The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.”

“Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.”

“Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.”

“If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with a whip in my hand to get them, I will do so. As the search may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love.”

“Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.”

“A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.”

“Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.”