Profoundly inspirational gold quotes will encourage growth in life, make you wiser and broaden your perspective.
Famous Gold Quotes
Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men. Ron Paul
Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver and gold. Bob Marley
Gold will be around, gold will be money when the dollar and the euro and the yuan and the ringgit are mere memories. Richard Russell
It’s health that is real wealth, not pieces of gold and silver. Mahatma Gandhi
We have gold because we cannot trust governments. Herbert Hoover
Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination and a hard to find alloy called guts. Dan Gable
There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality, and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence. Charles de Gaulle
All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. J.R. Tolkien
When paper money systems begin to crack at the seams, the run to gold could be explosive. Harry Browne
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. Leo Tolstoy
A US dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It’s not backed by gold or silver. It’s a promissory note that doesn’t actually promise anything. P. J. O’Rourke
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. Martha Graham
As good as gold. Charles Dickens
But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose, I am proceeding solely in quest of them. Christopher Columbus
Gold is still the ultimate store of wealth. It’s the world’s only true money. And there isn’t much of it to go around. All of it ever mined would fit into a small building a 56 foot cube. The annual world production would fit into a 14 foot cube, roughly the size of an ordinary living room. If each Chinese citizen were to buy just one ounce, it would take up the annual supply for the next 200 years. Mark Nestmann
Everything has its limit iron ore cannot be educated into gold. Mark Twain
My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it. John Gardner
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. Samuel Johnson
My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather. Anne Lamott
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. Kahlil Gibran
The world’s central banks and the International Monetary Fund still have vaults full of bullion, even though currencies are no longer backed by gold. Governments hold on to it as a kind of magic symbol, a way of reassuring people that their money is real. James Surowiecki
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths. Elizabeth I
If you trade in paper, the notion of many who trade gold if the financial world comes to an end, they’re going to have the gold. If you’re playing in ETFs, you’re going to have a piece of paper. Rick Santelli
Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold. Robert Kiyosaki
The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to mine, and to process; and that it cannot be created by political fiat or caprice. Henry Hazlitt
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth. William Rees Mogg
The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race. Gerald Loeb
To prefer paper to gold is to prefer high risk to lower risk, instability to stability, inflation to steady long term values, a system of very low grade performance to a system of higher, though not perfect, performance. William Rees Mogg
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world and succeeds in helping souls into paradise. Christopher Columbus
Gold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen; barter is the money of peasants; but debt is the money of slaves. Norm Franz
O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good. Euripides
Never trust money more than gold. Toba Beta
When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotent. Publilius Syrus
The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race. Gerald M. Loeb
Gold loves to make its way through guards and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning’s bolt. Horace
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping. Sophocles
You have to choose as a voter between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold. George Bernard Shaw
There is no honest man not one that can resist the attraction of gold! Aristophanes
Gold would have value if for no other reason than that it enables a citizen to fashion his financial escape from the state. William F. Rickenbacker
Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth. Pindar
Like Liberty, gold never stays where it is undervalued. John S. Morrill
We have gold because we cannot trust governments. Herbert Hoover
It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold. William McFee
Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one. Robert G. Ingersoll
Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can it be gotten without it. Samuel Butler
Never trust money more than gold. Toba Beta
O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, Which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour. Lord Byron
A gold standard doesn’t imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself. Ben Bernanke
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. Leo Tolstoy
Gold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen; barter is the money of peasants, but debt is the money of slaves. Norm Franz
Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold. George Herbert
Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver. Karl Marx
Gold what can it not do, and undo? William Shakespeare
he great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to mine and to process; and that it cannot be created by political fiat or caprice. Henry Hazlitt
Pure gold does not rust. Only gold alloys do so. You may have golden dreams. But if you go in the company of toxic people, you become a gold alloy and what that means is that you can rust at any time! Israelmore Ayivor
Gold will be around, gold will be money when the dollar and the euro and the yuan and the ringgit are mere memories. Richard Russell
The beauty about gold, though, is that in all states from uncertainty to conviction, it never for once gives up its lustre. Ufuoma Apoki
Those who worship Gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in, have at least one thing to plead in defense of their idolatry the power of their Idol. Charles Caleb Colton
I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. Henry David Thoreau
Gold would have value if for no other reason than that it enables a citizen to fashion his financial escape from the state. William F. Rickenbacker
Betting against gold is the same as betting governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history. Gary North
The anarch is on the side of gold. This is not to be construed as a lust for gold. He recognizes gold as the central and immobile power. Ernst Jünger
Even during the period when Rome lost much of her ancient prestige, an Indian traveler observed that trade all over the world was operated with the aid of Roman gold coins which were accepted and admired everywhere. Paul Einzig
Pure gold does not rust. Only gold alloys do so. You may have golden dreams. But if you go in the company of toxic people, you become a gold alloy and what that means is that you can rust at any time! Israelmore Ayivor
If ever there was an area in which to do the exact opposite of that which government and the media urge you to do, that area is the purchasing of gold. Robert Ringer
The beauty about gold, though, is that in all states from uncertainty to conviction, it never for once gives up its luster. Ufuoma Apoki
Bitcoin is not an actual physical coin, and if computers are shut down, you can’t buy or sell them. That’s why nothing will ever replace gold and silver coins themselves, and all investors should have them at home or in a safe deposit box. Mark Skousen
Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith. Rafael Sabatini
Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold. Robert Kiyosaki
Gold what can it not do, and undo? William Shakespeare
Gold is valuable everywhere in the world and is not dependent on political systems, any specific government policy, or set of policies. Roy Sebag
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, for that without it were else a miserable affair. Moliére
Gold has intrinsic value. The problem with the dollar is it has no intrinsic value. And if the Federal Reserve is going to spend trillions of them to buy up all these bad mortgages and all other kinds of bad debt, the dollar is going to lose all of its value. Gold will store its value, and you’ll always be able to buy more food with your gold. Peter Schiff
Beauty attracts us men, but if like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power. Jean Paul
If the world does well, gold will be fine. If the world doesn’t do well, gold will also do fine but a lot of other things could collapse. Thomas Kaplan
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue. Plato
If you want an alternative currency, check out gold. It has stood the test of thousands of years as a store of value and medium of exchange. Paul Singer
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. Martin Luther
