Riches Quotes

By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

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.

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

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.

Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.