Wealth Quotes - Page 27

• There was a time when formal clothes were one of life's great pleasures, as well as a way of describing instantly a man's status wealth. Toffs wore the most, the proles the least. Fast forward to 2008 and clothes are still an unrivalled pleasure but some men - and this includes many of our betters - have confused status with fake informality.

  Peter York

  Confused, Men, Clothes

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• You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Calling, Poverty, Ashamed

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval”, p.101

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• Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.

  Robert Breault

  Wisdom, Desire, Achieve

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• Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it's the you inside that counts.

  Rose Kennedy

  People, Simplicity, Remember

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• The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Littles, Rich, Envied

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.106

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• The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Exercise, Privilege, Rich

  Charles Caleb Colton (1866). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.268

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• The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Eye, Artist, Color

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• When you follow your heart instead of worrying about how to fatten your bank account, you can attract more ways to do both.

  Daylle Deanna Schwartz

  Money, Heart, Worry

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• Doing things you're passionate about, with an intention of helping others, will make you an all around richer person.

  Daylle Deanna Schwartz

  Money, Helping Others, Passionate

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• Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.

  Beatrice Webb

  People, Rich, Poor

  Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1923). “The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation”

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• There are two ways to be rich: 1. Acquire great wealth 2. Acquire few needs.

  Doris Janzen Longacre

  Simple, Two, Needs

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• A person who has great wealth will still be unhappy if he hasn't also mastered gratitude!

  Zelig Pliskin

  Gratitude, Unhappy, Persons

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• [His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Fire, Volcanoes, Mind

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• Prescription for Life-long Happiness: Purpose enough for satisfaction; Work enough for sustenance; Sanity enough to know when to play and rest; Wealth enough for basic needs; Affection enough to like many and love a few; Self-respect enough to love yourself; Charity enough to give to others in need; Courage enough to face difficulties; Creativity enough to solve problems; Humor enough to laugh at will; Hope enough to expect an interesting tomorrow; Gratitude enough to appreciate what you have; Health enough to enjoy life for all its worth.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Love You

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• Wealth is knowledge and its origin is evolution

  Eric Beinhocker

  Evolution, Economics

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• Having more and newer things each year has become not just something we want but something we need. The idea of more, of ever increasing wealth, has become the center of our identity and our security, and we are caught up by it as the addict by his drugs.

  Paul L Wachtel

  Inspiring, Years, Ideas

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• Do not let your "eye" be drawn by the false "beacon lamps" -of wealth, or position, or fame, or possessions. Be vigilant over your will and desires, for these are the corrupt forces that dwell within, and keep you from living free.

  John of the Cross

  Eye, Over You, Desire

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• Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in nature and purpose exact opposites, for the one extinguishes fire and the other adds fuel to it. So also the world and its treasures, the heart and its thirst for God are alike His creation. Now the result of the attempt to satisfy the heart with the wealth and pride and honours of this world is the same as if one tried to put out a fire with petrol, for the heart can only find ease and satisfaction in Him who created both it and the longing desire of which it is conscious.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Heart, Pride, Fire

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• We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are hungry and dying. We are committed to living simply and sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need.

  Nhat Hanh

  Sensual, Dying, Energy

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.110, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where the heart is set on greatness, success in business did not satisfy the craving, but that commonly with an increase of wealth, the desire of wealth increased.

  John Woolman

  Heart, Humble, Blessing

  John Woolman (2013). “journal”, p.35, Lulu.com

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• No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.

  Joy Davidman

  Enough, Consumerism, Overconsumption

  Joy Davidman (1985). “Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments”, p.120, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Self, Forever, Republic

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Paul observed, We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out (1 Timothy 6:7). He was referring to material things, wealth. However, we will take our knowledge and experience and training from this life with us into the next life.

  David Berg

  Training, World, Next

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• In an ecological perspective, in other words, there are few accidents or anomalies, only outcomes based on system structure and dynamics. Climate change and glittering malls, Calcuttan poverty and sybaritic wealth, biotic impoverishment and economic growth, militarism and terrorism, global domination and utter vulnerability are not different things but manifestations of a single system.

  David W. Orr

  Perspective, Growth, Environmental

  David W. Orr (2012). “The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror”, p.44, Island Press

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• Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Country, Ocean, Lakes

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