A Quote by Samuel Smiles

Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

Samuel Smiles

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Admire Any Claim Constitute Distinction Only Riches Vulgar

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Samuel Smiles
Scottish - Author
December 23, 1812 - April 16, 1904

Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.

Napoleon Hill

The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads to poverty. (The word riches is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material estates).

Napoleon Hill

The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

Samuel Johnson

The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The descendants of those who crucified Christ... have taken ownership of the riches of the world, a minority has taken ownership of the gold of the world, the silver, the minerals, water, the good lands, petrol, well, the riches, and they have concentrated the riches in a small number of hands.

Hugo Chavez

If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways.

Saint John Chrysostom

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

Red Cloud

I demand riches in definite terms; I have a definite plan for acquiring riches;I am engaged in carrying out my plan, and I am giving an equivalent,in useful service, of the value of those riches I demand.

Andrew Carnegie

We can tell that a good name is better than riches by those who prefer the riches.

Kin Hubbard

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

Charles Caleb Colton

Riches does not mean, having a great amount of property, but riches is self-contentment.

Muhammad

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Adam Smith

Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.

Benjamin Franklin

How I measure riches is by the friends I have and the loved ones I have and the people that I care about in my life, and that's where my values are and that's where my riches are.