#wealth

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire. ↗

— George Monbiot

#bootstraps #hard-work #wealth #dreams

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#ignorance #illness #oppression #poverty #war

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel... its poverty by how little. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#soul #wealth #poverty

History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything. ↗

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

#condition #human #maldistribution #poor #poverty

It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even as a child. I knew it for a long time, but only now have I experienced it. And now I know it, I know it not only because I remember hearing it, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach. And it is good for me to know it! ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#wealth #poverty

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#fortune #wealth #pleasure

Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't. ↗

— Nicole Williams

#life #wealth #wit #intelligence

Thought is power, as is desire, but neither is enough unless it is backed by faith, specificity, and the desire to see to it that it becomes. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#law-of-attraction #manifestation #manifesting #mind-power #money

I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle...you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul. ↗

— G.I. Gurdjieff

#struggle #wealth #life

Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#college #emerson #gold #knowledge #wealth