Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

Riches seldom make their owners rich.

Napoleon Hill

I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.

Epicurus

He who needs riches least, enjoys riches most.

Leonard Orr

The more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that's of value.

John Dryden

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

It's the little things that make up the richest part of the tapestry of our lives.

Billy Sunday

Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.

Benjamin Franklin

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Diana Ross

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.

Daniel Gilbert

Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

Charles Spurgeon

Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery.

Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.

Confucius

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

Andy Stanley

My hope is not in riches but in him who richly provides.

Anne Frank

There's plenty of room for everyone in the world. Enough money, riches, and beauty for all to share. God has made enought for everyone, so let us all begin then by sharing it fairly.

Anne Frank

The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty ... Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.

Robert Benchley

It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation.

Solon

Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety.

Sallust

The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara aeternaque habetur.]

Rosamunde Pilcher

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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.

John Milton

Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive, Get riches first, get wealth.

Miguel de Cervantes

Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.

Michael Mandelbaum

The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.

Matthew Henry

The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.

Plautus

Riches, rightly used, breed delight.

John Piper

The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.

Martin Luther

Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power. As the latter is the commonest, so it also is the most noxious.

Mason Cooley

The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.

Michel de Montaigne

Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.

Euripides

I care for riches, to make gifts.

Francis Bacon

Riches are for spending.