All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.
If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don't have your health, you have nothing.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.
Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
People want riches; they need fulfillment.
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
You have to, in a way, just get your head down and do the work and not expect every day to bring riches and not expect every minute to bring wild excitement, 'cause it just doesn't. It doesn't on films, anyway.
I always find it offensive when people say God showers riches on you if you're good.
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God.
It is one thing to hear about the forest and the river, but an entirely other experience to go there, to see the environment, and to appreciate the natural riches there first-hand.
The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.
My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were never raggedy.
It's common knowledge that professional athletes earn extraordinary incomes. What is less known or understood is how the advent of these riches has seeped into the conscious and unconscious ways in which our society now parents children.
Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.
I always wanted to be on a great TV show and in a Broadway show and have a CD out, and the fact that they happened simultaneously is kind of an embarrassment of riches.