Robert Hunter Quotes

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odorless.

Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.

The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.

The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?

Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.

It is one thing to want money-everyone wants more-but it is something entirely different to be worth more!

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

Put up the dream. Put in the knowledge. Put out the effort.

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

High self-esteem isn't a luxury. It's a necessity for anyone who has important goals to achieve.

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

Only those who ask for more can get more and only those who know there is more, ask.

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

All my life, I've dreamed in gold.

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

You're only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody's dishwasher that's their own f***ing problem. If you don't settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you'll end up anything you want to be.

It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

I covet honour in the same way as a miser covets gold.

Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.

I truly hope you realize how important setting goals are for young women, teaching them we have so much more to offer than our bodies.