Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deborah Kerr

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Benjamin Franklin

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Diana Ross

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.

Charles Spurgeon

Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery.

Daniel Gilbert

Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

Eleanora Duse

I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.

I have no riches but my thoughts, yet these are wealth enough for me.

Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.

Anne Frank

There's plenty of room for everyone in the world. Enough money, riches, and beauty for all to share. God has made enought for everyone, so let us all begin then by sharing it fairly.

Anne Frank

The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty ... Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.

Christopher Marlowe

Infinite riches in a little room.

Confucius

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

Andy Stanley

My hope is not in riches but in him who richly provides.

Billy Sunday

Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.

Garrison Keillor

Being rich and thin isn't everything.

Napoleon Hill

I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.

Napoleon Hill

Riches begin in the form of thought.

Mahatma Gandhi

There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.

Epicurus

He who needs riches least, enjoys riches most.

Horace

Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

George Herbert

Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches.

Euripides

I care for riches, to make gifts.

Francis Bacon

Riches are for spending.

Horace

Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.

Benjamin Franklin

If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with to the other world?

Francis Quarles

Wouldst thou multiply thy riches? diminish them wisely; or wouldst thou make thy estate entire? divide it charitably. Seeds that are scattered increase; but, hoarded up, they perish.

It's the little things that make up the richest part of the tapestry of our lives.

Jim Rohn

Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans.

Peter Kropotkin

Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.

John Dryden

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.