Quotes About Abundance

We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.

As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something.

What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.

No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving.

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

Men's giving can only be to a certain extent: but God's is without limit.

If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.

I am the rich man's guru.

The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.

The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.

I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Few men are both rich and generous; fewer are both rich and humble.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

The gift finds the man attractive who stands with an empty bowl he does not own.