Quotes on Wealth

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them, and to effect this, they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer for their purposes.

Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.

Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.

Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty and obscurity are what men detest; but unless prosperity be brought about in the right way, they are not to be abandoned.

A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves a shallow legacy. In the end, we will be judged by other standards.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

As base a thing as money often is, yet it can be transmuted into everlasting treasure. It can be converted into food for the hungry and clothing for the poor. It can keep a missionary actively winning lost men to the light of the gospel and thus transmute itself into heavenly values. Any temporal possession can be turned into everlasting wealth. Whatever is given to Christ is immediately touched with immortality.

For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings_x000D_ _x000D_ That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

When you are speaking to your team after a game, never talk about the kid who was the star of the game. Talk about what your other players did to help the team win. Be sure to spread the wealth... Then have individual meetings with one to three players to praise and reinforce. Make sure you touch them.

When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless.