Wealth Is Measured By Quotes & Sayings

The true wealth of a community is measured by how carefully it listens to its women and how sincerely it values their wisdom. Empowering women empowers us all. — Forest Whitaker

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel ... its poverty by how little. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

If everything we do in life is to be measured in terms of money, then life would be a very poor thing. The greater ambitions and desires of mankind are actuated by something deeper and finer than the desire to amass material wealth. — Frank Smythe

We have a presidential nominee in Hillary Clinton who knows that, in a time of stunningly wide disparities of wealth in our nation, America's greatness must not be measured by how many millionaires and billionaires we have, but by how few people we have living in poverty. — Cory Booker

Neither self nor wealth can be measured in terms of what you consume or own. Even — Rolf Potts

Remember that your real wealth can be measured not by what you have, but by what you are. — Napoleon Hill

Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be. — H.G.Wells

The most impoverished peasant can be delighted by the opening of the first spring flower, and the most wealthy aristocrat can curse the day he was born because of some petty offense to his sensibilities. She is a very wise woman. To achieve serenity we have to view life not as it is measured by the world around us but as we ourselves measure it. We must accept that the scales are not at all equal. — Emma Wildes

...and so it was that my wealth came to be measured in books — Colleen Plimpton

That prevailed before his time. National wealth was measured in terms of a country's stock — Adam Smith

Our success in life should be measured by the level of change you impart on the lives of the needy not by the amount of wealth you acquire". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

A man's wealth can ... also be measured by what he doesn't have and doesn't want. When he wants little, he is a rich man. — Bill Bonner

Selfish in his posture; material at his grasp, smirk upon his face; but this success will not last.
For you see, son, his purpose; lost along the way,
He started only living; for the dollar that he made.
Never make that error; for a dime to loose sight of your seek,
For value is not measured, by the wealth at your feet — Nikki Rowe

Success is not rightly measured by wealth, prestige and power. Success is measured by the yardstick of happiness. — Paramahansa Yogananda

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments. In a religious experience, for example, it is not a thing that imposes itself on man but a spiritual presence. 5 What is retained in the soul is the moment of insight rather than the place where the act came to pass. A moment of insight is a fortune, transporting us beyond the confines of measured time. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulates. The inner character of a person - the undergirding moral and spiritual values and commitments - is the true measure of lasting greatness. — Billy Graham

A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with the same sense of utter disbelief as we look upon slavery and serfdom in former times. The very idea that a human being's worth was measured almost exclusively by his or her productive output of goods and services and material wealth will seem primitive, even barbaric, and be regarded as a terrible loss of human value to our progeny living in a highly automated world where much of life is lived on the Collaborative Commons. — Jeremy Rifkin

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul. — John Piper

Success cannot be measured in wealth, fame or power, but by whether you have made a positive difference for others. — Richard Branson

The problem with Prosperity Theology is not that it promises too much, but that it aims for so little. What God promises us in Christ is far above anything that can be measured in earthly wealth - and believers are not promised earthly wealth nor the gift of health. — Albert Mohler

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality. — Eric Alterman

Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy. — Derrick Jensen

Did poverty in itself lead to moral failings, such as crime? Was "goodness" something that could be objectified and measured? Did society benefit directly from individual virtue, and therefore have incentive to promote it? Did our concepts of goodness have their foundations in religious and spiritual practice? What about the notion that money was the root of all evil, and those monks and nuns who felt it necessary to deny themselves material wealth? — Jean Thompson

The wealth of a society isn't measured at the top, but at the bottom — Jim Webb

True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire. — Cesar Chavez

A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need. — Henry David Thoreau

Wealth of a heart is measured not by how much love it received, but by how much it gave away without expectation. — Debasish Mridha

With any method of attaining great wealth, there is a price, and price is not always measured in money — Robert Kiyosaki

My wealth is measured not in money but in photographs, not in quantity but creativity. — Destin Sparks

Since any product is derived from labor, the value of a product to one who does not intend to consume it is measured in the labor of others. The real value of all products is their cost in labor.[34] Labor creates all the wealth of the world. — Jonathan Kolber

Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life — Henry David Thoreau

Its very important to me to be respected by true talented artists and great minds than by the masses who need to be told how to think. Its more important for me to do things that are spiritually rewarding because that wealth is what makes me feel alive. I do not touch projects that do not yield personal fulfillment, or put me in a field with talent that is over-measured. You wont find me where there is no Truth. And Im not one to jump on any bandwagons or join a gold rush without a purpose. Id rather create my own projects and grow my own fields. — Suzy Kassem

Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To use them rightly one must possess wisdom and love for God and man. — Paramahansa Yogananda

I fear we face a new kind of man along with this new kind of affluence. When lands meant wealth, men could perhaps have enough. Too much land was difficult to govern. But with paper money, more is simply more. In France, you know, where they suffer from their own financial mania, they have a word - the millionaire - to denote men whose wealth is measured in the millions. Millions. It is inconceivable, but there are more than a few men who hold this title. — David Liss

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant 'well-being,' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money. — John Ruskin

Wealth isn't always measured in dollar signs. We each have time, talent and creativity, all of which can be powerful forces for positive change. Share your blessings in whatever form they come and to whatever level you have been blessed. — Jon M. Huntsman Sr.