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Joyce Brothers

The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.

Socrates

Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.

Benjamin Franklin

Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.

Koran

Wealth and children are the adornment of life.

Plato

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Benjamin Franklin

He does not possess wealth it possesses him.

C. Neil Strait

A man can go on without wealth, and even without purpose, for a while. But he will not go on without hope.

Ayn Rand

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Mohammad

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

Japanese Proverb

In wealth many friends in poverty, not even relatives.

Danish proverb

Children are a poor man's wealth.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

Confucius

Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.

Seneca

It is the sign of a week mind to be unable to bear wealth.

Anon.

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

Euripides

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Thomas Jefferson

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.

Kin Hubbard

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

Louis D. Brandeis

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.

Sallust

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

DRYDEN: _Wife of Bath,_ Line 485.

If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.

Russell Green

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.

Oprah Winfrey

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

Plutarch

Learn to be pleased with everything with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

George Santayana

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Josh Billings

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

Chilo

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain the former vexes you for a time the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 1.

High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind.

Kahlil Gibran

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

Andrew Carnegie

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

GOLDSMITH: _Traveller,_ Line 91.

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

La Bruyere

Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

W. Wirt

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Emma Goldman

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Charles Caleb Colton

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.

Buddha

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Euripides

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

Francis Bacon

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Epictetus

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

James J. Roche

Be not surprised if thou findest thyself in possession of unexpected wealth. Allah will provide an unexpected use for it.

Strickland Gillilan

RICHER THAN GOLDYou may have tangible wealth untoldCaskets of jewels and coffers of gold.Richer than I you can never be --I had a mother who read to me.

Socrates

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Will Durant

The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.

Arabic Proverb

If you have much, give of your wealth if you have little, give of your heart.

Strickland Gillilan

RICHER THAN GOLDYou may have tangible wealth untold;Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.Richer than I you can never be --I had a mother who read to me.

Edward Steichen

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

Euripides

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.

Tibetan Doctrine

The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.

If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy

We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors any

Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.

The first wealth is health.

There is no wealth but life.

All wealth is the product of labor.

All true wealth is biological.

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

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Money is the root of all wealth.

Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.

Warning: Politicians can damage your wealth.

He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.

If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.

The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.

When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldings enjoy.

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learned - and if your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.

He does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech to advance the good of others.

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

Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.

It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.

Open your mouth and purse cautiously; and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.

Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

...a science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth.

Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or m

There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.

"Money is the root of all wealth!"--Donald Trump

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.