Prosperity Quotes - Page 3

• Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Happiness, Faith

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jul 05, 2010

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• Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Together, Affliction

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. [586]

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• Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

  Francis Bacon

  Adversity, Blessing, Christian Inspirational

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Adversity'

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• When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, May, Hills

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.385, Courier Corporation

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• Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.

  Hosea Ballou

  Adversity, Safe, Littles

  "Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopedia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors". Book by Maturin Murray Ballou, 1884.

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• Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.

  Aeschylus

  Fall, Pride, Riches

  Aeschylus (1965). “The Oresteia trilogy: (Agamemnon, Choephoroe [and] Eumenides) [and] Prometheus bound”

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• To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

  Tryon Edwards

  Sympathy, Grief, Grieving

  Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.295

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• You are asked to keep a ledger - a small notebook will do - of money in and money out. Counting brings clarity, and clarity is one of the first and finest fruits of prosperity.

  Julia Cameron

  Notebook, Fruit, Firsts

  Julia Cameron, Emma Lively (2012). “The Prosperous Heart: Creating a Life of "Enough"”, p.17, Penguin

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• Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

  Aristotle

  Success, Education, Teaching

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

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• As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Life, Appreciation, Kindness

  "THE DEMOCRATS: THE KENNEDY FACTOR; 40 Years Later, Invoking Spirit of New Frontier" by Adam Nagourney, www.nytimes.com. August 16, 2000.

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• Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Money, Husband

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• You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Strong, Men, Libertarian

  "The Industrial Decalogue" (1916). These "ten cannots" are frequently, but falsely, attributed to Abraham Lincoln.

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• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Spring, Adversity, Winter

  Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

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• Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Prosperity often presages adversity.

  Hosea Ballou

  Adversity

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• In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness.

  Confucius

  Gains, States, Found

  Confucius (2013). “The Great Learning (Unabridged)”, p.1, e-artnow

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• Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.

  Plautus

  Arrogance

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• 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.

  Alexander Smith

  Sweet, Sunshine, Perfection

  Alexander Smith (1866). “Miss Oona McQuarrie: A sequel to Alfred Hagart's household”, p.116

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• So use prosperity, that adversity may not abuse thee: if in the one, security admits no fears, in the other, despair will afford no hopes; he that in prosperity can foretell a danger can in adversity foresee deliverance.

  Francis Quarles

  Adversity, Abuse, Despair

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.43

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• It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned.

  Edmund Burke

  Real, Heart, Character

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3681, Delphi Classics

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• There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

  Augustus William Hare

  Success, Eye, Men

  Augustus William Hare (1836). “Sermons to a country congregation”, p.451

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• Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

  Billy Graham

  Adversity, Reality, Religion

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

  George Washington

  Peace, Money, Powerful

  George Washington (1837). “Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.38

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• Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

  Wayne Dyer

  Positive, Money, Successful

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• Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Patriotic, Deities, Wealth

  1928 Speech, Boston, 11 Jun.

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