Prosperity Quotes - Page 19

• One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high taxes from starting a new business. Rather, the Prince should be ready to reward men who want to do these things and those who endeavour in any way to increase the prosperity of their city or their state.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Taken, Men, Cities

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• The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not wrought a deep and solemn conviction in the public mind, that greater energy of government is essential to the welfare and prosperity of the community

  Alexander Hamilton

  America, Government, Community

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2014). “The Federalist Papers”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Agriculture, Liberty, Four

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism.

  Mitch McConnell

  Change, Long, Friendly

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• Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.

  Lewis Mumford

  Technology, Arbitrary, Novelty

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• General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Patriotic, Europe

  Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate, delivered 12 June 1987, West Berlin

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• The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount, this fundamental concern is carried forward. The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance. Today the mass of the people are uninformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Educational, Fall, Ignorance

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• Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.

  Pat Summitt

  Sports, Ambitious, Way

  Pat Head Summitt (1998). “Reach for the Summit: The Definite Dozen System for Succeeding at Whatever You Do”, Broadway

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• One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.

  Susan Sontag

  People, Society, Liberty

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.117, Penguin UK

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• What can we do to create shared prosperity? The answer is not to try to slow down technology. Instead of racing against the machine, we need to learn to race with the machine.

  Erik Brynjolfsson

  Technology, Race, Racing

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• Everything starts with faith. Faith causes us to see good things in the future, and because of this we develop a vision of success and prosperity in life.

  Casey Treat

  Inspirational, Vision, Causes

  Casey Treat (2010). “The 3 Essentials: All You Need for Success in Life”, p.11, Penguin

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• Human beings are not intrinsically selfish, which isolates us from others. We are essentially social animals who depend on others to meet our needs. We achieve happiness, prosperity and progress through social interaction. Therefore, having a kind and helpful attitude contributes to our own and others' happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Buddhist, Attitude

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• The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice.

  Kofi Annan

  Future, Justice, Tolerance

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• Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

  George C. Marshall

  War, World, Poverty

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• Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

  John Calvin

  Men, Delight, Poverty

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• Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

  John Calvin

  Poverty, Dangerous, Blinded

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Isaiah 33- 48”, p.199, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

  William Dean Howells

  Hope, Doors, Expectations

  William Dean Howells (2015). “The Complete Works of William Dean Howells: 27 Novels & 40+ Short Stories, Including Plays, Poems, Travel Sketches, Historical Works & Autobiography (Illustrated): Christmas Every Day, The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Traveler from Altruria, The Flight of Pony Baker, Venetian Life, Italian Journeys, Imaginary Interviews, A Boy's Town, Years of My Youth…”, p.4259, e-artnow

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• Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mankind, Humankind

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.97, Routledge

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• The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well meaning Christians, as well as in the corrupt hearts of persecuting Usurpers, that without a legal incorporation of religious and civil polity, neither could be supported. A mutual independence is found most friendly to practical Religion, to social harmony, and to political prosperity.

  James Madison

  Christian, Religious, Heart

  James Madison (1965). “The forging of American federalism: selected writings of James Madison”

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• I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

  Victor Hugo

  Money, Men, Wealth

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• A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity.

  Charles Lamb

  Family, Shadow, Pieces

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• Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their opposites, peace, economy, and riddance of public debt, believing that these were the high road to public as well as private prosperity and happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Believe

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.91

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• I am one with the Power that created me. I am totally open and receptive to the abundant flow of prosperity that the Universe offers. All my needs and desires are met before I even ask. I am Divinely guided and protected, and I make choices that are beneficial for me. I rejoice in other's successes, knowing there is plenty for us all.

  Louise Hay

  Knowing, Choices, Desire

  Louise L. Hay (1999). “You Can Heal Your Life Gift”, p.193, Hay House, Inc

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• This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every human being capable of comprehension. We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among the nations, and that instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, may become a perennial fountain of world prosperity.

  Winston Churchill

  Nature, Science, Men

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

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• He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Adversity, Soul, Mind

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