Wealth Quotes

Wisdom outweighs any wealth. (Sophocles)
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate. View quote
Euripides
The greatest wealth is to live content with little. View quote
Plato
The shortest way to wealth is through the contempt of wealth. View quote
Seneca
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity. (15) View quote
Epicurus
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. View quote
Confucius
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Where there are friends there is wealth. View quote
Plautus
Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better. View quote
Hesiod
Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth. (Epictetus)
I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one. View quote
Euripides
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time. View quote
Kiran Desai
If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are. View quote
Imelda Marcos
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Contentment is the only real wealth. View quote
Alfred Nobel
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. View quote
Christopher Marlowe
Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty. View quote
George Herbert
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively. (Bob Marley)
It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth. View quote
Faina Ranevskaya
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. View quote
Louis Brandeis
Contentment is natural wealth luxury, artificial poverty. View quote
Socrates
📖 Wealth Proverbs