Wealth Quotations | Page 4

Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent

Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much, and wants more

Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.

Since 1963, much has changed in America and the world. And much remains the same. The struggle for fairness, equal protection, equal opportunity, self-determination, the struggle to defend the poor and the needy, a fairer distribution of wealth and resources, continues in the face of the hostility of the vested interests, power and domination of the few.

Mans access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.

Oh, you'll not be any poorer if you smile along your way. And your lot will not be harder for the kindly things you say. Don't imagine you are wasting time for others that you spend. You can rise to wealth and glory and still pause to be a friend.

The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.