42 Quotes About Affluence

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It can help you make life a little easier and make you feel good about yourself. Here are the finest quotes about affluence to teach us all a thing or two about how to live a happy life when we have it all.

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People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed. Maya Angelou
Neatness and cleanliness is not a function of how rich...
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Neatness and cleanliness is not a function of how rich or poor you are but that of mentality and principle. Ikechukwu Izuakor
Every opportunity, every influence and affluence you possess, could not...
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Every opportunity, every influence and affluence you possess, could not have been for you alone, but to act as a platform to impact a generation. Sunday Adelaja
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Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow one's children to play in an environment where they listen to people rather than to stars, speakers, or instructors. All over the world, one can see the rapid encroachment of the disciplined acquiescence that characterizes the audience, the client, the customer. Ivan Illich
Don't only learn from the rich and successful men, also...
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Don't only learn from the rich and successful men, also learn from the poor and those that failed woefully, for in their failures lies the secret of success as well. Ikechukwu Izuakor
Don't cheat the foundation of a house because you want...
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Don't cheat the foundation of a house because you want to save for the roofing for at the end, you will have only roofed rubbles. Ikechukwu Izuakor
Never forget a man who weathered and rescued you from...
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Never forget a man who weathered and rescued you from the storm just because you can see the shores. Ikechukwu Izuakor
If you have money, you are affluent; if you have...
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If you have money, you are affluent; if you have joy, you are wealthy; and if you have love, you are rich. Matshona Dhliwayo
The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of...
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The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life. Wendell Berry
Whether it is big or small, the size of a...
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Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Real power, is the power that empowers without corruption Constance Friday
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Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission. Israelmore Ayivor
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Bill Gates wasn't born rich but he wasn't poor either even before he discovered Microsoft, he was just waiting for a connecting flight to the boulevards of greatness. Ikechukwu Izuakor
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There's poverty in wealth. If a man is wealthy without good health, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without children, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without God, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without giving alms, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without wisdom, is he not poor? Then there's a great lack in riches. Michael Bassey Johnson
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The 10 ever greatest misplacements in life:1. Leadership without character.2. Followership without servant-being.3. Brotherhood without integrity.4. Affluence without wisdom.5. Authority without conscience.6. Relationship without faithfullness.7. Festivals without peace.8. Repeated failure without change.9. Good wealth without good health.10. Love without a lover. Israelmore Ayivor
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You don't need to know why God sent you to the earth before you say "yes" to what He sent you for! He wants you to prosper and he is the only one who knows "how?"! Israelmore Ayivor
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You put yourself in a tight corner of failure if you think "it's only the rich that get richer while the poor get poorer". No! Something good can come out from you no matter who you are, what you have done and where you have been to! Israelmore Ayivor
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If I am to choose between integrity and wealth, I will go for integrity because I believe that lack of integrity is the first killer of wealthiest dreams! Israelmore Ayivor
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Rather than elevating poverty to a form of righteousness, Jesus is instead calling for a revolution of imagination around the nature of what we consider true blessing. Jamie ArpinRicci
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. Ayn Rand
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Don't ever feel sad about who you are. Don't wish to be a daughter or son to a wealthy home, just because you think you're poor. Look! Everybody's poor, i discovered it when i realized that its not everything that President Barrack Obama has. Michael Bassey Johnson
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People live in different worlds. There's a rich world, there's a poor world, and there's an extremely poor. The one you dwell is determined by the outcome of your sacrifice. Michael Bassey Johnson
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What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation! Ronald J. Sider
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Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire, (...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices John N. Gray
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Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it. Brandi L. Bates
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When my son speaks of playing sports, I've always told him: playing on the team is great, but aspire to be the guy who owns the team. I've always told my son: most of the guys on the team will end up bankrupt with bum knees, but not the guy who owns that franchise. Brandi L. Bates
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Granted, many of them replied, that socialism may not result in riches for all but rather in a smaller production of wealth; nevertheless the masses will be happier under socialism, because they will share their worries with all their fellow citizens, and there will not be wealthier classes to be envied by poorer ones. The starving and ragged workers of Soviet Russia, they tell us, are a thousand times more joyful than the workers of the West who live under conditions which are luxurious compared to Russian standards; equality in poverty is a more satisfactory state than well-being where there are people who can flaunt more luxuries than the average man. Ludwig Von Mises
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Don’t let affluence make you impoverished of God. Jon Bloom
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Greatness is in influence, and not necessarily in affluence. It is not achieved by being a 'paper millionaire', but by being a 'people millionaire'. Ogwo David Emenike
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Understand: I don't ever want to be equal to any other being. I always want to be greater...in all things, in all circumstances. Brandi L. Bates
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The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to 'not lose', as opposed to playing to win at all costs. Brandi L. Bates
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No one is born with equality. We all come here with varying degrees of opportunities, qualities, strengths, weaknesses, IQ, etc. Brandi L. Bates
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When everything is available, nothing is ever enough. Emma Woolf
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Everyone's life changes when they meet their Obi-Wan & their Yoda, or their Morpheus & their Oracle; those who help remove the veil. Brandi L. Bates
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Be selective in your battles... Brandi L. Bates
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Influence creates affluence. Affluence does not create influence. Affluence makes you more of who you already are. Richie Norton
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...we steal with our eyes closed to the conditions in which the poor, who make our affluence possible, live. We covet what our neighbours have and want more of the same. Karen BakerFletcher
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To have affluence is to spread kingdom principles Sunday Adelaja
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Behavior was better when cinemas were opulent. George F. Will
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Adversity hath slain her thousand, but prosperity her ten thousand. Thomas Brooks
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Parents who spoil their children out of 'love' should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no laws against such abuse--no man-made laws anyway--this spiritual mistreatment may result in as much long-term personal and social damage as the worst physical abuse. Randy Alcorn