Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Topic: Ability, Wealth
- Location: Yosemite National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable—this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.
Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.
Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
The question, 'Who ought to be boss?' is like asking 'Who ought to be the tenor in a quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bond together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.
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.
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
