#riches

Rags-to-riches story? I've heard that gospel before, no thanks. I find no greater inspiration than the riches-to-rags story of redemption, the story of God leaving His golden throne to pursue a wretch like me. ↗

— T. William Watts

#gospel #inspiration #rags #riches #wealth

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#call #creator #daily #daily life #enough

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality. ↗

— Nadia Boulanger

#enriches #everything #find #finding #get

Privacy about giving is counterproductive. There is solid scientific research showing that people are more likely to give if they can see that others are giving. The richest people, in particular, should be setting an example. ↗

— Peter Singer

#counterproductive #example #give #giving #likely

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

— Adam Smith

#consists #enjoyment #greater #parade #part

I learned that ruling poor men's hands is nothing. Ruling men's money's a wedge in the world. But after I'd split it open a crack I looked in and saw the trick inside it, the filthy nothing, the fooled and rotten faces of rich and successful men. ↗

— Robinson Jeffers

#life-lessons #men #riches #experience

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#common-sense #curiosity #deadly-sins #faults #gold

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#away #give #mandatory #only #possess

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#made #possession #riches #them #treasures

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. ↗

— Epicurus

#away #desires #happy #his #make