moral wealth Quotes

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Wealth is a thing, earned with honesty and justice. Its opposite is the Mammon of unrighteousness.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

No man can make a million dollars honestly.

In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness.

Honesty is incompatible with amassing a large fortune.

it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God

No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.

For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.

A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.

Do we, mad as we all are after riches, hear often enough from the pulpit the spirit of those words in which Dean Swift, in his epitaph on the affluent and profligate Colonel Chartres, announces the small esteem of wealth in the eyes of God, from the fact of His thus lavishing it upon the meanest and basest of His creatures?

Money and virtue must always be combined.

Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.

No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.

Do not consider that to be wealth which is hoarded away, for how is it better than sand gathered from the nearest heap? Nor that which comes in from men who groan at their taxes: for the gold that is wrung from tears is of base alloy and black.

A rich man is an honest man--no thanks to him; for he would be a double knave, to cheat mankind when he had no need of it: he has no occasion to press upon his integrity, nor so much as to touch upon the borders of dishonesty.