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Sunday, June 19, 2011

Wealth Inspiration, Part 2 - 'Inspiring Quotes on Wealth'


“A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.”



Wealth Inspiration: Quotes and Sayings on Wealth!

~ Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder. ~
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

”Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
~Henry David Thoreau~ (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)
“Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.”
~Ayn Rand~ (Russian born American Writer and Novelist, 1905-1982)
“Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time”
~Margaret Bonnano~
“Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.”
~Ayn Rand~ Russian born American Writer and Novelist, 1905-1982)
Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”
~Benjamin Franklin~ (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer, Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)
“Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.”
~Henry Ford~ (American industrialist and pioneer of the assembly-line production method, 1863-1947)
“It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.”
~Margaret Thatcher~ (British Politician and Prime Minister. b.1925)
“Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.”
~Frank Herbert~ (American science fiction Author and Writer 1920-1986)
“No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.”
~Henry Ward Beecher~ (Liberal US Congregational minister, 1813-1887)
“for the majority of instances where money is desired for the admitted object of blessing others, the real underlying motive is a love of popularity, and a desire to pose as a philanthropist or reformer....If your real desire is to do good, there is no need to wait for money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.”
~James Allen~ (New Zealander Statesman. Minister of defense (1912-20), 1855-1942)