Quotes About Riches

Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.

Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.

Tengo para mí que honras y dineros casi siempre andan juntos, y que quien quiere honra no aborrece dineros, y que quien los aborrece que se le da poco de honra.

It is a most certain truth that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

Robbers of the world; having exhausted the land by their universal plunder, they rifle the deep. If their enemy is rich, they are rapacious; if he is poor, they lust for power; neither the east nor the west has been able to satisfy them. Alone among men they covet with equal eagerness poverty and riches. Robbery, slaughter and plunder they misname 'empire'; they make a wilderness and call it peace.45

Your sight will be lost. It is not too late. You are humble still, pure. Let go of this fascination with earthly riches. You have so much more than they.

Health is the greatest gift, contentedness the best riches.

Amongst all possessions knowledge appears pre-eminent. The wise call it supreme riches, because it can never be lost, has no price, and can at no time be destroyed.

What a rich man gives and what he consumes, that is his real worth.

No man takes with him to Hades all his exceeding wealth.

The world tempts us either by attaching us to it in prosperity, or by filling us with fear of adversity. But faith overcomes this in that we believe in a life to come better than this one, and hence we despise the riches of this world and we are not terrified in the face of adversity.

In Christ are riches of Justification; in Christ are riches of sanctification, riches of consolation, and riches of glorification...Christ's riches are like the eternal springs of the earth, that cannot dry up, but are and shall be diffused by his Spirit and gospel, until his whole house be filled with them.

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes. The commerce of the living is not to be transferred unto the dead; it is not injustice to take that which none complains to lose, and no man is wronged where no man is possessor.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent.

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

What's the difference? Ninety million or 80 million. You still can't spend it all.

I have no idea how much money I've got.

The message is that riches, power and honour are worthless since they can come and go. No one should base their happiness on such fragile foundations. Happiness has to come from something that is more solid, something that can't be taken away. As Boethius believed that he would continue to live after death, seeking happiness in trivial worldly things was a mistake.

en un extremo hay sociedades indígenas, tribales, que tratan de detener la carrera hacia el desastre. En el otro extremo, las sociedades más ricas y poderosas de la historia del mundo, como Estados Unidos y Canadá, corren a toda velocidad para destruir el entorno lo antes posible.