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Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets! -- Karl Marx
Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality. -- Swami Vivekananda
I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow. -- Buzz Aldrin
Friends come and go but enemies accumulate. -- Arthur Bloch
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. -- Susan Sontag
Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution. -- Stephen Covey
The more storage you have, the more stuff you accumulate. -- Alexis Stewart
Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality. -- John Tyler
There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you. -- Buzz Aldrin
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. -- Henry Adams
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. -- A. J. P. Taylor
The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing. -- Vladimir Putin
Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment. -- William J. Brennan, Jr.
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years. -- Graham Greene
We don't need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, variety, beauty, challenge and a purpose in living that is greater than material accumulation. -- Donella Meadows
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell. -- Jerry Weintraub
The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith. -- Billy Graham
The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick. -- P. T. Barnum
Americans mythologize competition and credit it with saving us from socialist bread lines. Actually, capitalism and competition are opposites. Capitalism is premised on the accumulation of capital, but under perfect competition, all profits get competed away. -- Peter Thiel
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. -- Alan Watts
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. -- D. H. Lawrence
Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims. -- Abdolkarim Soroush
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is. -- Don Miguel Ruiz
It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so much data in each of these branches of science as it relates to origins that we have learned that no one discipline can answer questions of origins alone. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a secret desire that through meditation we will accumulate a stockpile of magical experiences, or at least a mystical trophy or two, and then we will be able to proudly display them for others to see. -- Sharon Salzberg
Capitals accumulate faster than population -- Thomas Malthus
Don't accumulate possessions; accumulate experiences! -- Mark Batterson
What you do not eliminate - you accumulate. -- Robert Morse
Friends may come and go, but barbecues accumulate. -- Thomas Jones
Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate. -- William Shakespeare
Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend. -- Thomas J. Stanley
Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer -- Rand Paul
Unhealthy diets and junk foods accumulate and eventually you'll die. -- Seohyun
Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model. -- Leon Battista Alberti
But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked. -- Jacqueline Carey
The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages. -- Edwin Powell Hubble
Once you start something, finish it. Don't accumulate a backlog of unfinished projects. -- Ed Bliss
Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets. -- Andy Stanley
Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches. -- Napoleon Hill
It's easier to accumulate wealth if you don't live in a high-status neighborhood. -- Thomas J. Stanley
The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less. -- Shane Claiborne
I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through. -- Margaret Whiting
Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate. -- Jim Cooper
To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts. -- Robert MacArthur
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate. -- Gloria Steinem
Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories. -- Terry Pratchett
If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves. -- Carl Sagan
A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power. -- Dan B. Allender
Do not put off today's work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing. -- Umar
Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses. -- Rick Levin
Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. -- Thomas Jefferson
My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans. -- Edmund Phelps
Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses. -- Rick Levin
Becoming wealthy is like playing Monopoly.. the person who can accumulate the most assets wins the game. -- Noel Whittaker
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions. -- Stefan Kanfer
The biggest threat to advanced economies is that debt will accumulate until the overhang weighs on growth. -- Carmen Reinhart
Life is not about what you can accumulate. I learned to live when I learned to give. -- Anne F. Beiler
If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate. -- Steven Pinker
The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away. -- Wayne Dyer
I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency. -- Maud Newton
Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate. -- Roz Chast
Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it. -- Ray Bradbury
Life is a process of accumulation. We either accumulate the debt or the value, the regret or the equity. -- Jim Rohn
It's easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon. -- Hugh Howey
Without effective protection of the citizens' right to property, it will be difficult to attract and accumulate valuable capital. -- Mencius
Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him. -- Charles Dickens
One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine. -- Junius
In solitude, you accumulate energy to spend in crowds; and in crowds, you accumulate energy to spend in solitude! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard. -- Alexander Hamilton
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing. -- Bruce Sterling
The earlier you start, the easier it is to accumulate major wealth. Still, it's never really too late to begin. -- David Bach
Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity ... -- Norman Foster
Things you plan in life usually turn out to be meaningless, things you accumulate without knowing it become your real treasure. -- Thomas Adcock
Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate. -- Carolyn Crane
the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can. -- Anita Roddick
Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses. -- Ludwig von Mises
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less. -- G.K. Chesterton
The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others. -- Napoleon Hill
One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. -- Bruce Lee
Knowing where you stand in your quest to accumulate enough money for retirement is an incredibly important part of the planning process. -- Jean Chatzky
That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury. -- Will Rogers
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less. -- G.K. Chesterton
There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate. -- Haruki Murakami
It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years. -- Jim Cooper
You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there. -- Brian Mulroney
Life is accumulative - Either our errors accumulate to what we don't get, or our wise decisions accumulate into what we do get. -- Jim Rohn
A little here and a little there will always accumulate, so why be surprised when steady, small steps take you to great places? -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs. -- Joe Perry
It was necessary, temporarily, to limit certain requirements, accumulate necessary means, strain forces. We acted precisely in this way and built a socialist society. -- Joseph Stalin
What I usually do is hoard money - I accumulate as much as possible in the fear of not having enough to pay tax. -- Mark Billingham
You accumulate a great deal of acquaintances and friendships over the years, and you can't always spend as much time as you would like. -- Jamie Farr
The spirit of Revolution should always permeate the soul of humanity, so that the reactionary forces may not accumulate to check its eternal onward march -- Bhagat Singh
As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families. -- John Adams
It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments. -- Christopher Paolini
How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now. -- Susan Griffin
We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with. -- Lou Harrison
We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are. -- Arianna Huffington
Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same. -- Mahavira
The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum. -- John Updike
In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war. -- Carl von Clausewitz
People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often. -- Napoleon Hill
Key in life is to be able to answer the question "How much is enough?" Modern society has a desire to accumulate stuff & do nothing with it -- Gunter Pauli
If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom. -- Charlie Munger
Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of an apple tree. -- Janet Burroway
It's time to end the hypocrisy of those who accumulate wealth through the global economy, and then siphon funds to those who teach children to tear it down. -- Barack Obama
Integrity is better capital than money. You can accumulate it just like money, and you can use it just like money, but it goes further, and is enduring. -- Strive Masiyiwa
I feel good. At this point, the only thing I'm trying to do is accumulate at-bats and get my work in, and so far that's what I'm doing. -- Scott Rolen
To accumulate wealth, power or land beyond one's needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an institution, or a nation-state. -- Bill Mollison
The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry. -- James Larkin
Spring is the usual period for house-cleaning and removing the dust and dirt which, notwithstanding all precautions, will accumulate during the winter months from dust, smoke, gas, etc. -- Isabella Beeton
Fear is being used by the political class as an excuse to accumulate more power and self-importance - and collect a lot more taxes to support their agenda. -- Doug Casey
Success is not only the financial wealth you accumulate, it is also about being a leader, improving your relationships, living healthfully, and making a real difference in the world. -- Darren Hardy
Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete. -- Al Gore
Though I may accumulate a great deal of riches in this world, it is only my wealth of knowledge, talents, and emotional bonds that I keep when I leave. -- Richelle E. Goodrich

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