Quotes About Riches

And, indeed, it may well be admitted that the factors which have helped to make the modern world are mainly a desire for fame, a desire for knowledge, and a desire for riches; and woe betide the nation that forgets the first and second of these factors, and loses its soul in concentration upon the last of them.

Seeing, then, that God prefers his religion; seeing God prefers a tender conscience; seeing they that make themselves fools for the kingdom of heaven are wisest; and that the poor man that loveth Christ is richer than the greatest man in the world that hates him; Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation!

His beginnings were obscure, and, as everyone knows, he got rich enough to be an ambassador.

First, I had time, but no money; then I had money, but no time. Finally, I had time and money, but no health to make use of my wealth.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. [Ephesians 1:7]

If happiness always depended on what we had, then the richest would always be Glad, not Sad.

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

How do you get all those coins?" asked Mort.IN PAIRS.

The wealth of some people is here on earth. The wealth of other people is somewhere afar from the earth. Whatever the wealth may be, we must think of a wealth that is distinctive

If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptierMy house on earth, what rich rewardsThat guerdon were.

Some do not want to create rich experiences for others, others lack the ability to do so, but most just want to experience being rich, with little to no other experience.

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

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

The present moment holds infinite riches beyond your wildest dreams.

Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

I got a lifetime trust with millions in it.

I've made more money than I could spend in five lifetimes.

Unequal prosperity is better than shared poverty.

I have a billion dollars

Priceless. I rolled to face the wall. The recovered Rembrandt had been valued at forty million. But forty million was still a price.

In effect, the richest countries have an efficiency problem: they are squandering consumption without transforming much of it into joy.

There are many things which are not needful. Riches are not needful. Health is not needful. Fine clothes are not needful. Noble friends are not needful. The favour of the world is not needful. Gifts and learning are not needful. Millions have reached heaven without these things. Thousands are reaching heaven every year without them. But no one ever reached heaven without "repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.