Top 122 Riches Quotes

The image of entrepreneurship as the province of the unprivileged and un-entitled – the Horatio Alger, rags to riches myth – flies in the face of reality.

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

Riches and fame don’t come close to having family members and close friends who really care for you.

Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.

Economic integration is the path to riches and peace.

My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story.

I went through some tough years when I first moved to Los Angeles, and ‘The Riches’ was my first major success.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

Introversion, when embraced, is a wellspring of riches. It took me years to acknowledge this simple reality, to claim my home, and to value all it offers.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.

A learned man has always riches in himself.

The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

I went to South America with the idea that I would be an explorer, that I’d find lost tribes, become one of them, marry the chief’s daughter and find riches of gold.

I am the man who has risen from rags to riches.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches – with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone – was once at the core of the American Dream.

People want riches; they need fulfillment.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that’s a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an economically newborn future for this country. They show that the U.K. could be a prime provider of imaginative riches and intellectual adventure, which I think are the two great prizes of the 21st century.

Filming ‘The Road to Riches’ was surprisingly difficult for me. I learned that going back to career successes and failures can be emotionally exhausting as you are forced to revisit the euphoric highs and painful lows in high speed.

The more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that’s of value.

The most valuable wealth of a man is his knowledge, which cannot be destroyed; all other riches that he has gained are not considered to be wealth at all.

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.

America does not fight for land, glory or riches.

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.

When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn’t give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.

With shame be it spoken: by her fall, the Church’s liberties have been sacrificed for the sake of temporal advantages. The road to her ruin lay through the sinuous paths of riches: she has been prostituted in the streets to princes; she has conceived iniquity and will bring forth oppression to the undeserving.

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

With such riches as I have in life, you’re always nervous. Being Irish, you’re waiting for something to knock it sideways.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.

Worldly wealth is the Devil’s bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

The two things that I wanted in my life were to have a movie career and to be married, to have a family. And it’s an embarrassment of riches that I’ve got both.

It’s important for a parent to learn to take delight in a child whose behavior might seem mystifying. In the case of an extroverted parent with an introverted child, it can be learning to see the inner riches of your child that may not always be expressed on the surface – but are there.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

I was the epitome of rags to riches.

I don’t come from a position that I am better than everybody; I come from a position that I had a tough upbringing. And I don’t always highlight it, because I just never wanted to be that person with another rags to riches story.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is more enduring than fame, more precious than riches, more to be desired than happiness.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

I enjoy the riches of life.

All the riches of the world are not of sufficient value to redeem one perishing soul.

You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don’t have your health, you have nothing.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry.

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

We have such an embarrassment of riches when it comes to choice. Do you want to hike in the Alps? There are 300 pairs of shoes you can order within the next 10 minutes. You have your choice of everything.

Christ’s riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.

It’s an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don’t better. You end up with so much stuff going on the screen that you don’t know where to look, and that’s what I consider self-indulgent.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, ‘Earth’ meaning the riches of the earth, simple physical work. That is why there were wars, the movement of frontiers, war over riches.

How I measure riches is by the friends I have and the loved ones I have and the people that I care about in my life, and that’s where my values are and that’s where my riches are.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

I had this extraordinary role-model of rags to riches success in my grandfather and yet I was a girl, and girls in a very military family were not meant to have professional careers. I think that created the spur and edge to drive me on.