Best given & wealth Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We need not envy certain people their great wealth; they acquired it at a heavy cost, which would not suit us; they staked their rest, their health, their honour and their conscience to acquire it, the price is too high, and there is nothing to be gained by such a bargain.”

Source: Poems ... Second edition

“Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.”

Given Wealth Misery

Book:Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author

Source: Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author

“Devotion is the realization that wealth, education and power are God given gifts and not the endowments of fate.”

Given Wealth Fate Devotion Realization Endowment

Author:Pandurang Shastri Athavale

“Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly. A miser sacrifices all to his single passion; hoards farthings and dies possessed of wealth. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. Time and pains will do anything. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.”

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.”

Children Opportunity Given Wealth Poor Rich Too Much Advantage Misfortunes Great Opportunity

Book:Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

Source: Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

“All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates.”

Persons Country Wisdom America Given Wealth Chance Share Fairs Productions Equitable

Author:Coretta Scott King

“The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.”

Mean Given Enjoy Wealth

Author:Horace

“To live On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces, Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all Not yours. Given, uninherited, unpaid for; This is to be a trickster; and to filch Men's art and labour, which to them is wealth, Life, daily bread;--quitting all scores with "friend, You're troublesome!" Why this, forgive me, Is what, when done with a less dainty grace, Plain folks call "Theft.”

“When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.”

Mind Given Wealth Philosophical Fortune Injustice Philosopher Revenge Riches Merit Enjoyment Despised

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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