82 Quotes About Finances

Do you wish to become rich? You may become so if you desire it in no half-way, but thoroughly. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

As a man loves gold, in that proportion he hates to be imposed upon by counterfeits; and in proportion as a man has regard for that which is above price and better than gold, he abhors that hypocrisy which is but its counterfeit.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.

Reward a good servant well, and rather get quit of a bad one than disquiet thyself with him.

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open enemies.

The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.

Spend not on hopes.

Poverty is no sin.

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to cast off his trust in riches.

Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown.

There is a Spanish proverb, that one who would grow rich must buy of those who go to be executed, as not caring how cheap they sell; and sell to those who go to be married, as not caring how dear they buy.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.

Have you ever noticed that those who worry about finances never seem to have enough?

Those who would bring great things to pass must rise early. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty.

Riches, though they may reward virtue, cannot cause it. He is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

There is a perpetual frost in the pockets of some rich people; as soon as they put their hands into them, they are frozen so they cannot draw out their purses. Had I my way, I would hang all misers; but reversing the common mode, I would hang them up by the heels, that their money might run out of their pockets.

He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Never was a miser a brave soul.

The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense, corrupts the purest souls.

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain destruction and animosity between nations. It softens and polishes the manners of men. It unites them by one of the strongest of all ties-the desire of supplying their mutual wants. It disposes them to peace by establishing in every state an order of citizens bound by their interest to be the guardians of public tranquility.

Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God's Word, to bodily gifts, such as beauty and health; or to the gifts of the mind, such as understanding, skill, wisdom! Yet men toil for them day and night, and take no rest. Therefore God commonly gives riches to foolish people to whom he gives nothing else.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Tithing is God's financial plan for world evangelism and your personal success. Tithing is what he church did before bingo.

It is a great cause oftentimes why God blesseth not means, because we are so apt to trust in them, and rob God of his glory, not waiting for a blessing at his hands.