60 Wealth Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective on Luxury and Possessions

Quotes about wealth

Famous quotes on wealth

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To begin with, here are some of the best wealth quotes from famous authors and figures.

• "Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool." ~ Seneca the Younger

• "You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy." ~ Garth Brooks

• "Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins." ~ Jim Rohn

• "Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty." ~ Doris Day

• "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." ~ Billy Graham

• "It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness." ~ Thomas Jefferson

• "The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively." ~ Bob Marley

• "Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale." ~ Zig Ziglar

• "Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul." ~ Democritus

• "If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." ~ Henry Ford

• "I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes." ~ Oprah Winfrey

• "Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money." ~ Roger Wicker

• "Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think." ~ Ayn Rand

• "A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence." ~ Rumi

• "Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all." ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quotes about Gatsby's wealth

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With the wealth quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby classic novel, you’ll learn that no matter how wealthy you are, happiness doesn’t always rely on it.

• “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.” "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." (1.1-3)

• “Why they came East I don't know. They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.” (1. 17)

• “His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed. There was a touch of paternal contempt in it, even toward people he liked—and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts.” (1.20)

• "I like to come," Lucille said. "I never care what I do, so I always have a good time. When I was here last I tore my gown on a chair, and he asked me my name and address – inside of a week I got a package from Croirier's with a new evening gown in it." "Did you keep it?" asked Jordan. "Sure I did. I was going to wear it tonight, but it was too big in the bust and had to be altered. It was gas blue with lavender beads. Two hundred and sixty-five dollars." (3.23-25)

• "See!" he cried triumphantly. "It's a bona-fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fella's a regular Belasco. It's a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop, too - didn't cut the pages. But what do you want? What do you expect?" (3.49-50)

• “There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and he champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his motor-boats slid the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains.” (3.1)

• “The idea staggered me. I remembered, of course, that the World's Series had been fixed in 1919, but if I had thought of it at all I would have thought of it as a thing that merely happened, the end of some inevitable chain. It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people – with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe.” (4.113)

• “"Her voice is full of money," he said suddenly. That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money – that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it… high in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl […].” (7.99)

• "Self-control!" Repeated Tom incredulously. "I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that's the idea you can count me out […] Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions, and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white." (7.229)

• “I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made […].” (9.136-145)

• "One thing’s sure and nothing’s surer. The rich get richer and the poor get – children." – F. Scott Fitzgerald

• "Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry, ‘Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!’" – Thomas Parke D’Invilliers

• "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." – F. Scott Fitzgerald

• "‘Here, deares’. She groped around in a waste-basket she had with her on the bed and pulled out the string of pearls. ‘Take ’em down-stairs and give ’em back to whoever they belong to. Tell ’em all Daisy’s change’ her mind. Say: ‘Daisy’s change’ her mine!’" – F. Scott Fitzgerald

• "Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry." – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Health and wealth quotes

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Learn how the proverb ‘health is wealth’ is one hundred percent true with these health and wealth quotes.

• "Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it." ~ Josh Billings

• "If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want." ~ Elbert Hubbard

• "The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine." ~ Hippocrates

• "It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver." ~ Mahatma Gandhi

• "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." ~ Billy Graham

• "Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship." ~ Gautama Buddha

• "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." ~ Benjamin Franklin

• "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

• "Learn to forgive fully and completely. If you want health, wealth, and happiness, you can't afford the luxury of lugging around all those unforgiven, unforgotten past events. Let them go." ~ Peter McWilliams

• "In the West, we have become addicted to work. Americans now work the longest hours in the world. And the result is not health, wealth and wisdom, but rather a lot of anxiety, a lot of ill health and a lot of debt." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

• "I am now experiencing perfect health, abundant prosperity and complete and utter happiness. This is true because the world is full of charming people who now lovingly help me in every way. I am now coming into an innumerable company of angels. I am now living a delightful, interesting and satisfying life of the most widely useful kind. Because of my own increased health, wealth and happiness, I am now able to help others live a delightful, interesting and satisfying life of the most widely useful kind, my good - our good - is universal." ~ Catherine Ponder

• "It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it." ~ Nicholas A. Christakis

• "It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom." ~ Aristotle

• "Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless." ~ Benjamin Franklin

• "This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion." ~ Swami Vivekananda

Quotes about poverty and wealth

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Learn about how inequality becomes a concerning phenomenon around the globe with these poverty and wealth quotes.

• "In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of." ~ Confucius

• "It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed." ~ Kin Hubbard

• "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

• "The lack of money is the root of all evil." ~ Mark Twain

• "Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice." ~ Nelson Mandela

• "Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth." ~ Henry David Thoreau

• "The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life." ~ John F. Kennedy

• "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." ~ Pope Francis

• "...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human rights. For the first time in history, in this age of unprecedented wealth and technical prowess, we have the power to save humanity from this shameful scourge. Let us summon the will to do it." ~ Kofi Annan

• "Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls." ~ Antisthenes

• "The two great tests of character are wealth and poverty." ~ Charles A. Beard

• "Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent." ~ Plato

• "Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself.  Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain." ~ Plato

• "The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil." ~ Boyd K. Packer

• "Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad." ~ Marcus Aurelius