Wealth Quotes

The first wealth is health. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes it's not the wealth you have but what's inside you that others need. Author Unknown, from the The Wise Woman

Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest. Some things in the world are far more important than wealth; one of them is the ability to enjoy simple things. Dale Carnegie

Teaching allows you to share your wealth while at the same time increasing your own wealth. Catherine Pulsifer

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Riches enlarge, rather than satisfy appetites. Thomas Fuller

If you marry a monkey for his wealth, the money goes and the monkey remains as is. Egyptian Proverb

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. Oscar Wilde

May you have. . . Enough wealth to meet your needs Author Unknown, from the poem May You Have

It is better to live rich than to die rich. Samuel Johnson

I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it. John D. Rockefeller

Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. Sarah Bernhardt

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. Napoleon Bonaparte

It is good to have things that money can buy, but it is also good to check up once in awhile and be sure we have the things money can't buy. George Horace Lorimer

It is wealth to be content. Lao-Tzu

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. Henry Ward Beecher

There is no wealth but life. John Ruskin

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. Oscar Wilde

The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much. Saint John Chrysostom

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

Wealth is found in many ways and comes in various forms; it does not necessarily mean money. Catherine Pulsifer, from Meaning of Wealth

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. George Bernard Shaw

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. Oprah Winfrey

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. Thomas Jefferson

Some people have amassed great wealth because they first feel love towards their fellow man and start businesses that help meet their spiritual needs, or growth needs. Bryon Pulsifer, from What Comes First

"If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want." Elbert Hubbard