Cesar Chavez Quotes

If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways.

No matter how big a house you have or how slick a car you drive, the only thing you can take with you at the end of your life is your conscience.

Matters of the heart are important to me. All this materialism and all the money and wealth are things that you don't take to the grave. One day you have it. The next day you don't.

I'm not a religious person, but I prefer God to money.

Material things don't matter.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

At stake are two different visions of faith, the Church of Caesar, powerful and rich; and the Church of Christ - loving, poor and spiritually rich.

The newspaper people think we should still be back in the trash.... They really think Christians ought to be shabby, tacky, crummy, worthless people because we threaten them when we have things as nice as they have.... I’m excessive. Dear Lord, I’m excessive.... God is a great God. He deserves my best.

It became clear to me that our value as people is not in our stock portfolios and bank accounts but in the legacies we leave behind.

I care more about who people are as a person and being around good people because when you leave the world, you're not going to be able to take the money.

They dont understand what real treasure is. They see it in gold and copper, and tin. They see in herds of horses or cattle. They gather treasures to themselves, building great storehouses, which they guard ferociously. Then they die. What good is it then?

Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind.

Our obsession with material things and lack of self-worth is evident in our need for an abundance of momentary luxuries and must-have amenities that have no true value for real, man. And I mean, we do it just to impress people that could care less if your children or your children's children have anything left to show for your life after you gone.

Gotta be more than grabbing nines to buck tin in, gotta be more than just to lust women, gotta be more than platinum Rolexes.

The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed the spirit in all that.

We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how many mansions you built, or how many Rolls Royces you could afford. That's what dying patients teach you.

Wealth--the most excellent of all gods.

My watch say I made it, my chains say I'm rich. Diamonds in my mouth got me talking cash s**t.

Money isn't the most important thing. It is important, of course. I am not Mahatma Gandhi.

I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.