Riches Quotes - Page 11

• Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.

  David Hume

  Wise, Government, People

  David Hume (1754). “ESSAYS AND TREATISES ON SEVERAL SUBJECTS.”, p.140

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• I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

  Philip Johnson

  Twists, Mold, Tradition

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• Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

  Samuel Johnson

  Agriculture, Giving, Crops

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• A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Wise, Ambition

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• It is better to live rich than to die rich.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wisdom, Retirement, Wealth

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.291

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• Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

  John Locke

  Fashion, Philosophical, Taste

  John Locke (1823). “The Works of John Locke”, p.59

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• The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

  Martin Luther

  Money, People, Giving

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• There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

  Nelson Mandela

  People, Able, Poverty

  Associated Press Interview, www.aparchive.com. July 19, 2008.

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• What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

  Orison Swett Marden

  Home, Heart, Power

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.476, e-artnow

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• History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

  Karl Marx

  Inspirational, Real, Fighting

  David McLellan, Karl Marx (1972). “The thought of Karl Marx: an introduction”

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• Filming 'The Road to Riches' was surprisingly difficult for me. I learned that going back to career successes and failures can be emotionally exhausting as you are forced to revisit the euphoric highs and painful lows in high speed.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Careers, Painful, Speed

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• Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.

  Jean Paul

  Inspirational, Strength, Get Well Soon

  "Flower, Fruit and Thorn Pieces: Or, The Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel".

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• A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

  Petrarch

  Inspirational, Cutting, Desire

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• If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Poverty, Blame, Daily Life

  "Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter One (February 17, 1903), the 1993 translation by M. D. Herter Norton, 1929.

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• False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  Selfish, Mean, Land

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• If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  Happiness, Ignorance, Men

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• With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

  Adam Smith

  Life, Success, People

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 11 (1776)

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• All the riches of the world are not of sufficient value to redeem one perishing soul.

  Ellen G. White

  Soul, World, Perishing

  Ellen G. White (2014). “Signs of the Times Articles - Book I of III”, p.1722, Lulu Press, Inc

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• True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.

  Ellen G. White

  Generosity, Prosperity, True Generosity

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• Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.

  David Wilkerson

  Love, Running, Stress

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• Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.

  David Wilkerson

  Evil, Energy, Care

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• A good name is still to be preferred to great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Names, Down And, Pay

  "So Shall Ye Reap".

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• You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 09, 2013

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• To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from the point of rest in ourselves. Then, how much disappears, and all that remains falls into place. In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses. The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Book, Fall, Humility

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• **New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision. [first-line bold by author] [2002] p.23

  Gary Hamel

  Lying, Ambition, Innovation

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