Quotes About Riches

I have heard the commandments read a great many times and I never noticed that any of them said, Thou shalt be rich

Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.

This morning, when I was sitting in front of the window and taking a long, deep look outside at God and nature, I was happy, just plain happy. Peter, as long as people feel that kind of happiness within themselves, the joy of nature, health and much more besides, they'll always be able to recapture that happiness. Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your own heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there, as long as you live, to make you happy again.

Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will still bring you happiness again, as long as you live. As long as you can look fearlessly up into the heavens, as long as you know that you are pure within, and that you will still find happiness.

Pretending that things are nicely boxed up and put away robs us of great riches.

You haven't found all the answers yet. Electricity, telephones, these are lovely magic. But the poor go unfed. Men kill for what they cannot gain by their own labour. How to share the magic, the riches, the secrets, that is still the problem.

Evil is a point of view,' he whispered now. 'We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the stinking limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms.

You understood my soul, I thought, and now others are coming to sack its riches.

Heaping every luxury upon him, I only sickened him with mortal sweets so that finally he turned from the riches I offered, becoming a vagabond.

Blessed are the poor, for they know that their riches are in the One who being rich made himself poor in order to enrich us with his poverty, teaching us the Christian's true wisdom." —January 29, 1978

GeliÅŸmiÅŸ Bat? dünyas?n?n, olanaklar? ve ihtiÅŸam?yla çok zengin olduÄŸu zannedilse de çoÄŸu zaman insan kalbindeki güzellikleri öldürür.

A gain I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to men of skill but time and chance happen to them all.

Anyone who's been poor and gets rich is stalked by guilt and fear. Guilt because you know it isn't fair, that life hasn't changed for everyone

The hard part was living the contrast between being rich and being broke. It was like being smart, and waking up one day to find yourself dumb as a rock, but able to remember your former brains.

But England's degeneration had also allegedly occurred because its modern financial system had produced unimaginable riches for the few and deepening poverty for the many, widening the gap between rich and poor, and cursing the land with a malignant tyranny that ate away at the liberties once enjoyed by Englishmen.

The jeweled crown opens, and inside the lid are two hearts and a golden

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

For he that hath, to him shall be given.

In 1917, John D. Rockefeller could have paid off the whole US public debt on his own. Today, Bill Gates's entire fortune would barely cover two months' interest.

La fidelidad, según Pablo, no tiene nada que ver con la popularidad. Es lealtad comprometida con los deberes asignados por Dios, ni más ni menos. El hecho de que no podemos ser fieles a la multitud y a nuestro Dios al mismo tiempo es tan cierto como el hecho de que no podemos servir a Dios y a las riquezas.

Pierre de la Vérendrye and his companions had encountered a people blessed with material abundance. "Corn, meat, fat, dressed robes, and bearskins" were all among their riches. "They are well supplied with these things," the Frenchman wrote. But his abbreviated journal barely mentions the villagers' equally rich ceremonial life.1

God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

All you ever care about is money. That's all that matters to you! The only thing you understand is money, what a thing is worth in money.

The coming of the Crusades had made them rich as well as independent