Quotes About Riches

At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.

This is what we should in short seek in the whole of Scripture: truly to know Jesus Christ, and the infinite riches that are comprised in him and are offered to us by him from God the Father."122

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

To find riches is a beggar's dream, but to find love is the dream of kings.

Sitting here I glance over my right shoulder at the little row of books, red and green and blue, which stand waiting for my hand, offering their accumulated riches. I think of the years that may be in store for me, and of all the pages I may turn.

Burning my dreams away beside the fire: For death has made me wise and bitter and strong; And I am rich in all that I have lost.

Yes, well... I suppose the man who owns nothing is free." Gunnulf replied, "A man's possessions own him more than he owns them.

Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.

Rich with the spoils of Nature.

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.

I feel that's the richest gift that's ever been given to me: I get to do what I love. And it's a really brutal business, and no matter how successful you are you hear "No" more than "Yes."

You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.

God must love the rich or he wouldn't divide so much among so few of them.

Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

The love of pelf increases with the pelf. [Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.]

The values and the relationships of the people I love around me are my real riches. That's my lasting wealth.

Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances.

Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

To find riches is a beggar's dream, but to find love is the dream of kings.

GRACE GRACE is the GIFT of God's Riches' the PEACE of God, The LOVE of God, The HOPE of God.

Have you ever been given a gift that compares to God's grace? Finding this treasure of mercy makes the poorest beggar a prince. Missing this gift makes the wealthiest man a pauper.

But when Ellen throws at me that I have never had to struggle I feel like saying, 'Maybe. But I have had to learn to be capable in a hundred ways that were no pleasure or nourishment really. If I had not been rich, I might have become a good painter.' Instead, right now I had better get the silver out and see what needs polishing.

Together they breathed deeply, like people who exaggerate their soul because they have no other riches.' May Sarton, quoting Jean Dominique

You are eccentric when you have enough money to not be considered crazy