Top 1009 Riches And Poors Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God.

Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.

The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty ... Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.

As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.

For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness.

Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.

The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.

By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.

Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

Madam Walker was a woman who transformed herself in a very American, rags-to-riches way.

He won healing, He won deliverance, He won financial prosperity, mental prosperity, physical prosperity, family prosperity. He said He would meet my needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus, and I am walking around and saying, "Yes, my needs are met according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus." Glory to God, I am coveting to the "need meter"; I am coveting to the I AM; Hallelujah! And I say this with all respect so that it don't upset you too bad, but I say it anyway; when I read in the Bible where He says "I AM" I just smile and say "Yes, I AM too!"

The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads toward poverty.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

It was a beautiful letdown, the day I knew, that all the riches this world had to offer me, will never do.

When I was a lad, my parents and all their equivalents never lusted after other people's riches or success.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

Moscow... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!

All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.

The values and the relationships of the people I love around me are my real riches. That's my lasting wealth.

There is no substitute for the riches gained on a lifetime basis by the young American who studies or works abroad.

Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of them.

Honor, riches, marriage-blessing Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you!

I sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign.

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.

Do you know why God subjects you to so many miseries? That He may bestow on you the riches of heaven.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were never raggedy.

The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.

Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.

Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

Many follow a rule of thumb - no more than 5% in one stock. But that's not the entrepreneurial road to riches.

If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.