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“The Kuratsa is a cultural tradition long practiced in Samar and Leyte, from the city centers to even the farthest barangays. It is not limited to fiestas but is performed on many occasions such as weddings, birthdays, school events, and other community gatherings. It is in no way a display of luxury or wealth, but a practice deeply embedded in our way of celebrating faith and togetherness.”
Sharee Ann Tan (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are a small but varied community, which in its littleness reflects the spiritual wealth of the Catholic Church.”
Camillo Ballin (1944–2020) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: We are a small, young, and dynamic community, and we live on peaceful terms with the Muslim majority,” the Apostolic Vicar of Kuwait tells Fides (25 November 2008) Fides News Agency
“I didn’t really pray for fame or wealth. I just prayed for a lasting career. I just wanted to sing for the love of singing.”
Sheryn Regis (born 1979) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sheryn Regis on life after coming out as a lesbian: My heart is happy Inquirer.Net, 20 June 2023.
“As a matter of fact, I am up early because I must make a confounded trip to my hacienda, a journey of some ten miles, to inspect the flocks and herds. Never become a wealthy man, Sergeant Gonzales, for wealth asks too much of a man.” “Something tells me that never shall I suffer on that account,” said the sergeant, laughing.”
Johnston McCulley (1883–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The riche mans wealth, is moste enemye vnto his health.”
George Whetstone (1544–1587) first seen 1586 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The English Myrror (1586), ch. 3, p. 14
“You may go to Heaven without health, without wealth, without honours, without pleasures, without friends, without learning; but you can never go to Heaven without Christ.”
William Dyer (1633–1696) said by 1696 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Christ's Famous Titles, and A Believer's Golden Chain (Boston, NE: printed by B. Green & J. Allen for Nicholas Buttolph, 1704), p. 11. Slightly altered, misattributed to John Dyer, in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionar…
“And Wealth, more bright with Virtue joined, Brings golden Opportunity.”
Abraham Moore (1766–1822) said by 1822 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The assured good Report of this vast Tract of Land and happy Climate encouraged several Gentlemen of Condition and good Descent, to transport themselves and Families, and settle in this new Paradise; some for the Sake of Wealth, some for Religion, and others because they could not well live elsewhere; and others because they dared not, or cared not to stay at Home.”
Hugh Jones (professor) first seen 1724 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Present State of Virginia (New York, 1865, reprint of the edition of 1724), ch. 1, p. 23
“They did great wrong, through their impulsiveness; they skimmed the wealth of an important man, and disrespected his wife, believing he would never come.”
Emily Wilson (classicist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many say I am underrated, I am not underrated, I don’t see myself as being underrated, I don’t deserve what God has blessed me with because, who am I, what am I to deserve all he has done for me but again it’s not as if I have so much wealth for acquiring and building a film village but this is what my job requires.”
Ibrahim Chatta (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We will continue to undertake this exercise because, as the saying goes, health is wealth.”
“What we have done in partnering with SMEDAN in the past week is to train you how to fish. You must make use of your newly acquired skills to gain wealth and ensure that you contribute your quota to the development of the country.”
Gbenga Ashafa (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are committed to creatively harness the resources of the state to achieve the vision of wealth creation, employment generation and industrialisation.”
Udom Gabriel Emmanuel (born 1966) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/were-repositioning-akwa-ibom-for-greatness-gov-emmanuel/.During the New Year Solemn Assembly, Governor Udom Emmanuel reaffirmed that the central objective of his administration was to…
“You can see that the consequences of the lead actor’s actions are relatable even in our present times. Aside from showcasing wealth, riches etc in movies, filmmakers need to emphasise the need for honest living.”
Kenneth Okonkwo (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we want lasting prosperity, we must focus less on redistributing wealth and more on creating it.”
Efosa Ojomo wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Food is health and wealth. If we have a good agricultural system in Nigeria, it will carry everybody along because almost all fields of human endeavours can work in the sector and be productive,”
Joseph Bassey wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.”
George Ayittey (1945–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It appears that from time immemorial, stark greed, the desire for wealth, has overridden all humane considerations. Greed has served as a kind of anesthesia, deadening humane sentiments and breaking the bonds of affection that relate man to man.”
Chancellor Williams (1893–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is creating problem in Nigeria is this ungodly desire for acquisition of wealth and lack of justice because when there is no justice, there will not be peace.”
Roland Owie (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The looting of our common wealth… [is among] the major underlying factors behind the hardship and inflation we are witnessing today.”
Abubakar Girei (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everything seemed to have a certain authority,a certain power associated with wealth.”
Fred Wilson (artist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The labor of one enabled the wealth of the other to exist.”
Fred Wilson (artist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Regularly liberated by the scrap-metal collectors, and carefully restored by the gallery, in a reciprocal exchange of wealth and culture that suggests a subliminal understanding of some of its precepts”
Bruce Arnott (1938–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Self-belief, determination, drives and zeal defines a powerful person to me. Power starts with believing in yourself and it has nothing to do with wealth or politics.”
Joram Muzira (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Military thugs had taken over and plundered the wealth of the country, systematically destroyed Nigeria, and continued to damage it while I was away.”
“When considering fiduciary duty in the private sector, particularly for pension funds, it’s often argued that their primary obligation is to create wealth by generating high returns to secure future pensions. However, this narrow focus on returns overlooks the broader societal and environmental impacts of their investments.”
Johan Schot (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fundamentally, Henry’s command of wealth dominated the resources that could be brought to challenge his dynasty. He knew that financial power gave him the capacity to ruin his enemies, and control of the nation’s assets gave him a greater chance of passing the crown to his heir.”
Sean Cunningham (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
Henry David Thoreau (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both continents would not compensate for the good they impart.”
William Ellery Channing (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.”
Adolf Hitler (misattributed) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: This misattribution is sourced from John Toland. In Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography (1976), it is attributed to Hitler in a speech of May 1, 1927. It is recorded in Thoughts about the Tasks of the Future by Grego…
“There is enough wealth in the world to satisfy everyone's needs, ...'. This quote is actually credited to an American pastor of Swiss origin Frank Buchman, founder of the Moral Rearmament movement. Misquotes that Bapu is forced to wear.”
Mahatma Gandhi (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, and the other perpetual.”
Socrates (misattributed) first seen 1650 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Actually from Isocrates, it can be found on p. 213 of Classical Rhetoric in English, 1650-1800: A Critical Anthology, part of a 1703 translation of a letter Isocrates wrote to his friend Demonicus which begins on p. 210…
“Men are as demons and lust of wealth their chain, Which drags them forth to toil in shop and field; This chain is made of their fears and anxieties, Deem not that these men have no chains upon them. It causes them to engage in labour and the chase, It forces them to toil in mines and on the sea.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If for the Faith thou bear’st thy wealth, it then The Prophet says, is pure to righteous men.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Seek ye a purchaser who will pay you gold, Where will you find one more liberal than God? He buys the worthless rubbish which is your wealth, He pays you the light that illumines your heart, He accepts these frozen and lifeless bodies of yours And gives you a kingdom beyond what you dream of, He takes a few drops of your tears And gives you the divine fount sweeter than sugar.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The foolish aim at wealth.”
Ali (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?”
John D. Rockefeller (misattributed) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Though attributed to John D. Rockefeller, Sr. in I Want to Make Money in the Stock Market : Learn to Begin Investing Without Losing Your Life (2006) by Chris M. Hart, p. 169; this is clearly a statement of his son, John…
“In life, as in chess, one’s own pawns block one’s way. A man’s very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him.”
Charles Buxton (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of heaven; a happiness That, even above the smiles and frowns of fate, Exalts great Nature’s favorites; a wealth That ne’er encumbers, nor can be transferr’d.”
John Armstrong (poet) (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.”
Benjamin Jowett (misattributed) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Actually from one of John Dewey's lectures, reprinted in his Reconstruction in Philosophy (2004), p. 96
“Dear Ellen, your tales are all plenteously stored, With the joy of some bride and the wealth of her lord, Of her chariots and dresses, And worldly caresses, And servants that fly when she’s waited upon: But what can she boast if she weds unbeloved? Can she e’er feel the joy that one morning I proved, When I put on my new gown and waited for John?”
Robert Bloomfield (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!”
Otto von Bismarck (disputed) first seen 1865 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Frequently quoted in online leftist circles. Refers to the split of the First Internationale (between anarchists and socialists). The earliest mention is on page 95 of American radicalism, 1865-1901, essays and document…
“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?”
Edwin Percy Whipple (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make.”
Edwin Percy Whipple (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.”
John Frederick Boyes (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People who are arrogant on account of their wealth are about equal to our Laplanders, who measure a man’s worth by the number of his reindeer.”
Fredrika Bremer (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wealth is an imperious mistress; she requires the whole heart and life of man.”
Édouard René de Laboulaye (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[...]proper mental exercise increases your chances for wealth.”
Robert Kiyosaki (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would say that one of the hardest things about wealth building is to be true to yourself and be willing to not go along with the crowd.”
Robert Kiyosaki (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most discussed building in Mumbai is probably the twenty –seven- story of Mukesh Ambani India’s wealthiest man and the head of Reliance Industries. Ambani’s personal wealth is estimated at just under $ 25 billion, just about a billion for each floor of his Mumbai home.”
Mukesh Ambani (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source