moderate wealth Quotes

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.

Always face what you fear. Have just enough money, never too much, and some string. Even if it’s not your fault, it’s your responsibility. Witches deal with things. Never stand between two mirrors. Never cackle. Do what you must do. Never lie, but you don’t always have to be honest. Never wish. Especially don’t wish upon a star, which is astronomically stupid. Open your eyes, and then open your eyes again.

I don't wanna get rich - just live good.

The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

I don''t wanna be rich, just live good.

I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.

I don't have to be a 'gazillionaire;' what's important to me is to just being able to work.

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

O grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends.

All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that is the best state of fortune that is neither directly necessitous nor far from it. A mediocrity of fortune, with gentleness of mind, will preserve us from fear or envy; which is a desirable condition; for no man wants power to do mischief.

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

I don't need to be crazy rich and crazy famous. I would just like to keep going.

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.

It's not my cause in life to be filthy rich. Being comfortable is enough.

We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without labor, either manual or professional, being few, and of moderate wealth. Most of the laboring class possess property, cultivate their own lands, have families, and from the demand for their labor are enabled to exact from the rich and the competent such prices as enable them to be fed abundantly, clothed above mere decency, to labor moderately and raise their families. ... Can any condition of society be more desirable than this?

I may not have made humongous sum of money through acting, but I have enough to lead a stress free life.