1.
Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth, but theirs.
Saint John Chrysostom
It is an injustice to withhold our prosperity from the impoverished, robbing them of their means of subsistence; we are not rightful owners of our affluence, but theirs.
2.
Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.
Robert Baden-Powell
Satisfaction is not mere gratification, not the product of riches. It is the consequence of energetic labor instead of idle indulgence in gratification.
3.
True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.
Cesar Chavez
Authentic prosperity is not determined by riches, prestige, or authority. It is assessed in the testament we bequeath to those we cherish and those we motivate.
4.
The wealth of the country must eventually be enjoyed by people of the country
Steven Biko
The citizens of the nation must eventually benefit from the riches of their homeland.
5.
There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery
Karl Marx
There must be something fundamentally flawed in the very basis of a social system which augments its affluence without abating its wretchedness.
6.
The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.
Saint John Chrysostom
'The wealthy person is not measured by what they have, but by what they give away.'
7.
If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.
LeCrae
8.
Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.
Frantz Fanon
Prosperity is not the result of toil but the consequence of ordered sheltered larceny.
9.
Educate yourself make your world view bigger, visualize wealth, and put yourself in the picture
KRS-One
Broaden your horizons, contemplate affluence, and imagine yourself as part of the equation.
10.
True wealth is having your health, and knowledge of self.
Immortal Technique
Genuine riches is enjoying robustness, and understanding of one's self.
11.
Do not vie with others in the accumulation of wealth. Vie with them in Ibadaah.
Al-Shafi‘i
Compete with others in acts of worship.
12.
The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The most effective way to ensure poverty for all is to demand absolute economic parity.
13.
Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow.
Jane Jacobs
Unremarkable and seemingly pointless as they might be, incidental encounters on the pavement can act as a catalyst for a city's vibrant communal life.
14.
Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.
Ratan Tata
Influence and riches are not among my chief priorities.
15.
Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true.
Neville Goddard
16.
O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.
Saadi
"O Satisfaction, endow me with riches! For without you there is no affluence."
17.
If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if he were one of the heathen.
Polycarp
18.
Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.
Peter Kropotkin
19.
If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.
John Piper
20.
Don't use all your health to chase after wealth, only to spend all your wealth later to get back your health.
Joseph Prince
21.
There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.
Thiruvalluvar
22.
When you come to Jesus, you don't come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus
David Platt
23.
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
Billy Sunday
25.
Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
Plato
26.
Devotion is the realization that wealth, education and power are God given gifts and not the endowments of fate.
Pandurang Shastri Athavale
27.
There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.
J. Paul Getty
28.
Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.
Richard Neal
29.
Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before God; for that which he gives us freely, we appropriate to ourselves.
Huldrych Zwingli
30.
The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth.
Augusto Pinochet
31.
Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
J. C. Ryle
32.
The key to wealth is to learn how to make money while you sleep
J. Paul Getty
33.
All wealth is the product of labor.
John Locke
35.
Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth.
Paul Clitheroe
36.
Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.
Karl Marx
37.
Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
Thomas More
38.
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Matthew Arnold
39.
When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually. Not because I say so, because it's not based on physical reference.
Jacque Fresco
41.
We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
Gloria Steinem
42.
I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
Steve Jobs
44.
At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.
Alexander von Humboldt
45.
Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest.
Paul Zane Pilzer
46.
The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.
Hilaire Belloc
47.
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
Simone Weil
49.
The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.
Mahatma Gandhi
50.
Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer