“In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.

God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.

I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich.

Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.

The only difference between a RICH person and a POOR person is how they use their time.

We, the present generation, have the responsibility to act as a trustee of the rich natural wealth for the future generations. The issue is not merely about climate change; it is about climate justice.

If you want to be rich, be friends with people who have the same mindset as you, or who at least won’t try to change your mindset to be more like theirs. Life is too short to spend time with people who don’t help you move forward.

If you want to be rich, simply serve more people.

The truth is that money doesn’t make you rich; knowledge does.

Building your own business is the best way to become rich. Then you can begin investing in other assets.