Prosperity Quotes

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  Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

  Ayn Rand

  Witty, Business, Government

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.131, Penguin

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• Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

  Rose Kennedy

  Adversity, Trying, Fortunate

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• To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

  Ernst Otto Fischer

  Dream, Slumber, Literature

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• Much effort, much prosperity.

  Euripides

  Meaningful, Effort, Literature

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• Confidently receive God's abundant blessings. Think abundance, prosperity, and the best of everything.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Blessing, Thinking, Religion

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity.

  Wayne Dyer

  Focus, Miracle, Progress

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• In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

  John Churton Collins

  Love, Friendship, Atheist

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• In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pride, Arrogance, Disdain

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 B.C..

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• Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things.

  Eric Butterworth

  Spiritual, Thinking, Way

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• There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Sight, Self

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• If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Inspirational, Life, Appreciation

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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• We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspiring, Adversity, Affliction

  Dwight L Moody (1958). “Talks to Christians”, p.81, Moody Publishers

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• Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

  Wayne Dyer

  Cheating, Money, Abundance Of Love

  "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

  Solomon

  Adversity, Eugenics, Joyful

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• It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.

  Friedrich Schiller

  School, Adversity, Challenges

  "The Philosophical and Aesthetic Letters and Essays".

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• Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Success, Wealth

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• The fortitude which has encountered no dangers, that prudence which has surmounted no difficulties, that integrity which has been attacked by no temptation, can at best be considered but as gold not yet brought to the test, of which therefore the true value cannot be assigned.

  Samuel Johnson

  Integrity, Temptation, Gold

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.120

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• Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.

  Ovid

  Numbers, Storm, Left Alone

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• Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

  Aeschylus

  Wisdom, Enough, Mortals

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• Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

  Edmund Burke

  Real, Men, Design

  Edmund Burke (1839). “The Works of Edmund Burke ...”, p.349

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• If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, Race, Wish

  Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”

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• Prosperity is full of friends.

  Euripides

  Literature

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts”

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• If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

  W. C. Fields

  Comedy, Behinds, Ifs

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Nature, Food, Cooking

  Poor Richard's Almanack (1734)

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