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[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.
The values and the relationships of the people I love around me are my real riches. That's my lasting wealth.
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.
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.
There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms
Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.
'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.
Many follow a rule of thumb - no more than 5% in one stock. But that's not the entrepreneurial road to riches.
The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.
I went through some tough years when I first moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Riches' was my first major success.
Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.
Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on to evil.
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.
And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.
It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.
There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.
Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for.
The way to transform your immense inner value into outer riches is by giving it freely and authentically to others.
There is no substitute for the riches gained on a lifetime basis by the young American who studies or works abroad.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is more enduring than fame, more precious than riches, more to be desired than happiness.
There are some rich people who, no matter how much God sends their way, never seem to put their hope in their riches.
Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.
No riches from his scanty store / My lover could impart; / He gave a boon I valued more - / He gave me all his heart!
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.
Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.
I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn.
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.
A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset.
I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.
With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.
As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none
Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.
[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.
O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.
In country, as in people, a plain exterior often conceals hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and with.
Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.