Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
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Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
Coming together is a beginning;
keeping together is progress;
working together is success.
- Henry Ford
Profit is a by-product of work;
happiness is its chief product.
- Henry Ford
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Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
If everyone is moving forward together,
then success takes care of itself.
- Henry Ford
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford
Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
If money is your hope for independence,
you will never have it.
The only real security that
a man can have in this world
is a reserve of knowledge,
experience and ability.
- Henry Ford
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
The greatest wealth is health.
- Virgil
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus
Give to your relatives, and to the needy, and to travelers.
Do not squander your wealth in wantonness.
- Quran 17:26
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Our journey into consciousness of wealth
begins with the realization that we have already arrived!
- Michael Bernard Beckwith
Balance activity with serenity,
wealth with simplicity,
persistence with innovation,
community with solitude,
familiarity with adventure,
constancy with change,
leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Working at a job you hate is unlikely
to bring you either happiness or success.
Do what you love. You are far more likely to gain success -
recognition and financial reward - if you are working
at something that inspires and excites you.
And, whether wealth follows or not, you will be happy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I were to wish for anything,
I should not wish for wealth and power,
but for the passionate sense of potential -
for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
There are nine requisites for contented living:
HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
WEALTH enough to support your needs;
STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;
GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them;
PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;
CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;
LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;
FAITH enough to make real the things of God;
HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
I have no wealth to bestow on him.
If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward.
Is not friendship divine in this?
- Henry David Thoreau
The first wealth is health.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't fall for looks, they can deceive.
Don't fall for wealth, in the end it fades away.
Find someone who makes you smile
because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.
- Anonymous
Books are the treasured wealth of the world
and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
- Henry David Thoreau
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength,
and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I look forward to a great future for America -
a future in which our country will match its military strength
with our moral restraint,
its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
- John F. Kennedy
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden
People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Like Beauty, Joy and Suffering are
in the Eye of the Beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
Dance like no one is watching,
love like you'll never be hurt.
Sing like no one is listening.
Live life like it's heaven on earth.
- Anonymous (various attributions and alternate phrasings)
The greatest lovers are like twin blooms,
each reflecting the passion and the glory of the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
Like an Eagle, May You Always Soar
High Above the Troubles of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you see something done,
know that you intended it.
If you don't like what you see,
then deeply examine your intentions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Act the way you'd like to be
and soon you'll be the way you act.
- Leonard Cohen
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