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Affluence Quotes

Quotes tagged as "affluence" Showing 31-60 of 70
Jamie Arpin-Ricci
“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 Arpin-Ricci, The Cost of Community: Jesus, St. Francis and Life in the Kingdom

Brandi L. Bates
“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

Brandi L. Bates
“I don't want to be around people who accept me as is, in my unrefined state of becoming. I consistently want people around me who push and encourage me to be my ultimate best, who bring out the inner diamonds. I want to be around those intellectual giants who extract the gold within me, those who force me to read, to attend classes, seminars, conferences, and who steep me in an environment of perpetual growth and upward mobility. Not trying to be funny, but I've learned that I simply cannot afford to invest too much time around mediocrity. It's contagious.”
Brandi L. Bates

“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, Great Reflections on Success

Michael Bassey Johnson
“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

Israelmore Ayivor
“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, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“When everything is available, nothing is ever enough.”
Emma Woolf, The Ministry of Thin

Brandi L. Bates
“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, Remains To Be Seen

Brandi L. Bates
“No one is born with equality. We all come here with varying degrees of opportunities, qualities, strengths, weaknesses, IQ, etc.”
Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen

Brandi L. Bates
“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

Brandi L. Bates
“Sometimes transitional periods in life leave you feeling like a great big jumble of loose, split ends.”
Brandi L. Bates, Soledad

Kirtida Gautam
“My definition of Fun Game is when everyone wins.”
Kirtida Gautam

Brandi L. Bates
“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, Remains To Be Seen

Brandi L. Bates
“His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea...”
Brandi L. Bates, Soledad

Israelmore Ayivor
“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, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Israelmore Ayivor
“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, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Israelmore Ayivor
“Money is not the priority. A step to dream big and planning of your dreams is a premier action that will see you through a start of your journey to success.”
Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

Israelmore Ayivor
“Talents are seeds of greatness. With big dreams well dispensed in form of achievements, you can pick money from people’s pockets and they will never get the guts to call you a thief.”
Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

“...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 Baker-Fletcher, Dancing with God: The Trinity from a Womanist Perspective

George F. Will
“Behavior was better when cinemas were opulent.”
George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana