Riches Quotes - Page 18

• There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors. But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Love, Strong, Men

  "De l'esprit or, Essays on the Mind, and Its Several Faculties". Book by Claude Adrien Helvétius, 1758.

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• This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men ... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

  Walt Whitman

  Stupid, Hate, Crazy

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• I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state; more so than riches or arms.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Thinking, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (1838). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Ed., and Many Letters Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.48

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• Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are to be found. The strange journeys we undertake on our earthly pilgrimage, the joy and suffering we taste or confer, the chance events that leave us together or apart, what a complex trace they leave: so personal as to be almost incommunicable, so fugitive as to be almost irrecoverable.

  Vikram Seth

  Stars, Journey, Doors

  Vikram Seth (2008). “Two Lives”, p.498, Penguin Books India

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• There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty and misery where exhaustion is followed by wretchedness instead of regeneration, or great riches and an entirely effortless life where boredom takes the place of exhaustion and where the mills of necessity, of consumption and digestion, grind an impotent human body mercilessly and barrenly to death – ruins the elemental happiness that comes from being alive.

  Hannah Arendt

  Lasting Happiness, Boredom, Balance

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.108, University of Chicago Press

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• O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.

  Napoleon Hill

  Mind, Desire, Might

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• Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.

  William Faulkner

  Heart, Faces, Lord

  William Faulkner (1954). “The Best of Faulkner”

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• In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

  Diogenes

  Men, House, Faces

  Herakleitos, Diogenes (2011). “Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport”, p.48, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• With his continual doctrine [Bishop Hooper] adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much severe to any as to them which for abundance of riches and wealthy state thought they might do what they listed. And doubtless he spared no kind of people, but was indifferent to all men, as well rich as poor, to the great shame of no small number of men nowadays. Whereas many we see so addicted to the pleasing of great and rich men, that in the meantime they have no regard to the meaner sort of poor people, whom Christ hath bought as dearly as the other.

  John Foxe

  Men, Small Numbers, People

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• Riches, power and fame last only for a few years! Why do people cling so desperately to these transitory things? Why can't people who have more than they need for themselves give that surplus to their fellow citizens? Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?

  Anne Frank

  Hard Times, Years, People

  Anne Frank (1959). “The Works of Anne Frank”, Greenwood Press

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• It is only by the abolition of the State, by the conquest of perfect liberty by the individual, by free agreement, association, and absolute free federation that we can reach Communism — the possession in common of our social inheritance, and the production in common of all riches.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Agreement, Perfect, Liberty

  Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.130, Courier Corporation

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• Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power and riches and reach. And who, despite all this, seems pretty sane and beneficent by the standards of most gods. Oh, and who sometimes swears in Tibetan.

  Stephen Baxter

  Phones, Black, Corporations

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• We must cast away everything which hinders us upon our road towards heaven – the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye and the pride of life; the love of riches, pleasures and honors, the spirit of lukewarmness and carelessness and indifference about the things of God – all must be rooted out and forsaken if we are anxious for the prize. We must mortify the deeds of the body, we must crucify our affections for this world.

  J. C. Ryle

  Eye, Pride, Heaven

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• The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend.

  Alfredo Di Stefano

  Old Friends, Balls, Prestige

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• Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service. If we do not use the mind that God has given us, we condemn ourselves to spiritual superficiality and cut ourselves off from many of the riches of God’s grace.

  John Stott

  Christian, Spiritual, Cutting

  John Stott (2013). “Your Mind Matters: The Place of the Mind in the Christian Life”, p.84, InterVarsity Press

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• The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Temptation, Poverty, Doe

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• I call God to record against the day we shall appear before our Lord Jesus, that I never altered one syllable of God's Word against my conscience, nor would do this day, if all that is in earth, whether it be honor, pleasure, or riches, might be given me.

  William Tyndale

  Jesus, Honor, Records

  "Foxe's Book of Martyrs". Book by John Foxe, March 20, 1563.

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• Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because of it, people give up their real riches for a cause that mutilates them; for an appearance that reifies them; for roles that wrest them from authentic life; for a time whose passage defines and confines them.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Giving Up, Real, People

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.179, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful moneymaker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend, and may leave behind him an exhausted industry and a legacy of industrial hatred. A tough manager may never look outside his own factory walls or be conscious of his partnership in a wider world. I often wonder what strange cud such men sit chewing when their working days are over, and the accumulating riches of the mind have eluded them.

  Robert Menzies

  Country, Business, Wall

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• Fundraising is a very rich and beautiful activity. It is a confident, joyful and hope-filled expression of ministry. In ministering to each other, each from the riches that he or she possesses, we work together for the full coming of God's Kingdom.

  Henri Nouwen

  Beautiful, Expression, Fundraising

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• God is the source of my supply. His riches flow to me freely, copiously, and abundantly. All my financial and other needs are met at every moment of time and point of space; there is always a divine surplus.

  Joseph Murphy

  Space, Needs, Flow

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• When we are on the beach we only see a small part of the ocean. However, we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. We only see a small part of God's great love, a few jewels of His great riches, but we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. The best is yet to come, when we see Jesus face-to-face.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Beach, Jesus, Ocean

  Corrie Ten Boom, Charles R. Swindoll (2002). “Messages of God's Abundance”, p.21, Zondervan

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• The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do it, it wouldn't be a dream but would rather be reality.

  Robert Fulton

  Dream, Reality, Rags

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• Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what was I going to do with it? Certainly not squander its gold on the commonplace quest for riches and respectability, and then secretly lament the price that had to be paid for these futile ideals. Let those who wish have their respectability -- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous and the romantic.

  Richard Halliburton

  Beautiful, Indulge In, Wish

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• I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

  Polykarp Kusch

  Knowledge, Science, Men

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