Quotes about Wealth

When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

Earn all you can, give all you can, save all you can.

Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God's money will I keep for myself?

One great reason why the rich in general have so little sympathy for the poor is because they so seldom visit them. Hence it is that one part of the world does not know what the other suffers. Many of them do not know, because they do not care to know: they keep out of the way of knowing it — and then plead their voluntary ignorance as an excuse for their hardness of heart.

Do not impute to money the faults of human nature.

Gain all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

Many despise economy, confounding it with stinginess and narrowness. But economy is consistent with the broadest liberality. Indeed, without economy, there can be no true liberality. We are to save, that we may give.

Health is a treasure. Of all temporal possessions it is the most precious.

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men." "In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury." "The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing." "The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags."

Riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away.

Teach them that the approbation and smiles of Jesus are of greater value than the praise or flattery or approval of the most wealthy, the most exalted, the most learned of the earth.