R Quotes
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“Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches.”
“Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.”
“Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.”
“Riches are not only measure with monetary value.”
“Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.”
Source: The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed
“Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes
“Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd;
Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave,
Or throw a cruel sunshine on a fool.
But for one end, one much-neglected use,
Are riches worth your care; (for nature's wants
Are few, and without opulence supplied;)
This noble end is, to produce the soul;
To show the virtues in their fairest light;
To make humanity the minister
Of bounteous Providence; and teach the breast
The generous luxury the gods enjoy.”
“Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.”
Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance
“Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God's Word, to bodily gifts, such as beauty and health; or to the gifts of the mind, such as understanding, skill, wisdom! Yet men toil for them day and night, and take no rest. Therefore God commonly gives riches to foolish people to whom he gives nothing else.”
“Riches are the savings of many in the hands of one.”
“Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and desire; nor can anything restrain or regulate the love of money but a sense of honor and virtue, which, if it be not nearly equal at all times, will naturally abound most in ages of knowledge and refinement.”
Source: Essays and treatises on several subjects in two volumes: Essays, moral, political, and literacy
“Riches are well, if gotten well and spent well.”
“Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind.”
“Riches begin in the form of thought.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“Riches bring anxiety; wisdom gives peace of mind.”
“Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“Riches can be stolen-not richness.”
“Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.”
“Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans.”
“Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.”
“Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.”
Source: Thrift
“Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.”
“Riches do not make one rich but busy.”
“Riches do not so much exhilarate us with their possession, as they torment us with their loss.”
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy
“Riches does not mean, having a great amount of property, but riches is self-contentment.”
“Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.”
“Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.”
Source: Think, Thank, Thunk - Self-Help Collection
“Riches draw friends as corpses draw vultures”
Source: Book of Wisdom
“Riches either serve or govern the possessor.”
“Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.”
“Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.”
“Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.”
“Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.”
“Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.”
Source: Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.”
“Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.”
Source: Poems. With an introductory essay by J. Montgomery
“Riches I hold in light esteem, And love I laugh to scorn, And lust of fame was but a dream That vanished with the morn. And if I pray, the only prayer That moves my lips for me Is, 'Leave the heart that now I bear, And give me liberty!' Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.”
Source: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
“Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.”
“Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.”
Source: The Best of Faulkner
“Riches make cowards of us.”
Source: Within this Present
“Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.”
Source: L.P.
“Riches may not bring happiness, but neither does poverty.”
“Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.”
Source: The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc
“Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your own heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there, as long as you live, to make you happy again.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your own heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there, as long as you live, to make you happy again.
Whenever you're feeling lonely or sad, try going to the loft on a beautiful day and looking outside. Not at the houses and the rooftops, but at the sky. As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that you're pure within and will find happiness once more.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very rich are a poor bunch of bastards”
Source: East of Eden
“Riches seldom make their owners rich.”
“Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.”
Source: Of wisdom: Three books. Written originally in French, by the Sieur de Charron. With an account of the author. Made English by George Stanhope, ...
“Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears”
“Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.”
Source: Historical Novels of Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur, The Fair God & The Prince of India (Illustrated): A Tale of the Christ, The Last of the 'Tzins – Story of Aztecs and Conquistadors & The Fall of Constantinople