Affluence Quotes

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.

Adversity hath slain her thousand, but prosperity her ten thousand.

My definition of Fun Game is when everyone wins.

Behavior was better when cinemas were opulent.

To have affluence is to spread kingdom principles

...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

Influence creates affluence. Affluence does not create influence. Affluence makes you more of who you already are.

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

Be selective in your battles...

Brandi L. Bates

When everything is available, nothing is ever enough.

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

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

No one is born with equality. We all come here with varying degrees of opportunities, qualities, strengths, weaknesses, IQ, etc.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sometimes transitional periods in life leave you feeling like a great big jumble of loose, split ends.

Brandi L. Bates

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

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

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

Real power, is the power that empowers without corruption

Constance Friday

There are three impossibilities in life: God cannot lie, God cannot change and finally, I cannot be a poor man.

Ikechukwu Izuakor

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

If you have money, you are affluent; if you have joy, you are wealthy; and if you have love, you are rich.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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 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 the storm just because you can see the shores.

Ikechukwu Izuakor

Don't sell the warmer for an air conditioner just because its summer, for in winter, you will have to do the reverse.

Ikechukwu Izuakor

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.

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.

Neatness and cleanliness is not a function of how rich or poor you are but that of mentality and principle.

Ikechukwu Izuakor

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.