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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Plato

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Andrew Carnegie

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

John Lothrop Motley

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

George MacDonald

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Plato

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

Robert Collier

Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.

Joel Osteen

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Mark Twain

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Henry Ford

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

B. C. Forbes

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

DeWitt Clinton

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.

Suze Orman

A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.

Suze Orman

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Edmund Burke

The first wealth is health.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose.

Tim Jackson

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

William Hazlitt

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

Eric Butterworth

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Rose Kennedy

Learn to recognize true wealth. Money itself will not make you financially free. That comes as a result of only that powerful state of mind which tells us that we are worth far more than our money.

Suze Orman

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.

Mark Cuban

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

David Hume

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

Will Smith

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Buddha

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

Hesiod

Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life.

Jose Rizal

Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure.

Charles M. Schwab

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

Alfred Marshall

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Ayn Rand

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Edward Young

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Adam Smith

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

Joel Osteen

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Henry David Thoreau

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

William Feather

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

George Eliot

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Frank Herbert

The key point to understand is that prosperity is an internal experience, not an external state, and it is an experience that is not tied to having a certain amount of money.

Shakti Gawain

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Epictetus

Wealth creation and job growth are nothing to be ashamed of, and the expression of economic creativity is a beautiful manifestation of freedom.

Lisa Kennedy Montgomery