Prosperity Quotes - Page 36

• There are few problems in the world that economic prosperitycannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierceattack. The forces that seek power over others have gained the upperhand against those that seek freedom. By harming wealth creation,they cause even more strain on society. Historically, this is nothingnew. State domination over its subjects has roots that connect statism,totalitarianism, communism, and socialism to more modern-day variantsof liberalism and progressivism. It is a constant fight and we mustwin.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Fighting, Roots, Wealth Creation

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• No matter how poorly our lives seem to be going, we can become part of a greater flow of good and increase our awareness by doing something more than we have to do-by giving of ourselves. One of the keys to prosperity is realizing that prosperity doesn't come by getting more-it comes by giving more! We can prosper by emphasizing what we are giving rather than concentrating on what we are getting.

  John Templeton

  Keys, Giving, Matter

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• To me, one of the proofs that there is a moral governance in the universe is the fact that when people and governments work intelligently and far-sightedly for the good of others, they achieve their own prosperity, too.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Government, People, Facts

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• In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.

  Horatius Bonar

  God, Christian, Adversity

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 7), 1895.

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• We are well-placed internationally right now and this government has been very clear in stating that our continued concern and vision for this country is to see that long-term economic growth and prosperity, build on the track record of one million net new jobs. These are things Canadians want -- to have steady hands on the tiller and that's what's been done today.

  Michelle Rempel

  Country, Jobs, Government

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• To keep up with the demands of the growing manufacturing sector, our Government is pleased to invest in the establishment of the Saskatchewan Manufacturing Centre of Excellence. Training skilled workers and increasing productivity and innovation are essential to the continued growth and prosperity of Saskatchewan, and Western Canada.

  Michelle Rempel

  Government, Innovation, Growth

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• The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

  Horace

  Adversity, Too Much, Delight

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• As many suffer from too much as too little.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Suffering, Littles, Too Much

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.138

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• A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2650, Delphi Classics

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• As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both partners, without domination or unfair advantage. Together we have been partners in adversitylet us also be partners in prosperity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Together, Capes, Rising

  "Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 25, 1963.

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• Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

  Victor Hugo

  Mean, Men, Citizens

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.17

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• The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Taste, Democratic, Well Being

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy in America”, p.30

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• I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Women, Thinking, Doe

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XII, 1840.

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• Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions.

  James Fallows

  Country, Real, Moving

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• The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Honor, Principles, Credit

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• Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity

  Yatin Patel

  Perseverance, Perception, Promise

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• The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward through the ranks.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Average, Firsts, Rich

  Campaign address, Detroit, Mich., 2 Oct. 1932

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• Prosperity has no power over adversity.

  Publilius Syrus

  Adversity

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• In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually acquire courage, faith, the will to succeed and the capacity to love.

  Alexis Carrel

  Fall, Capacity To Love, Effort

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• I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office, irrespective of former party opinions, who will endeavour to make the new constitutions and the laws passed under them as beneficial as possible to the true interests, prosperity, and liberty of all classes and conditions of the people.

  Robert E. Lee

  Party, Intelligent, Men

  Robert E. Lee, Ben Wynne (2004). “Recollections and Letters”, p.241, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.

  Ben Jonson

  Prayer, Wicked Person, Affliction

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3176, Delphi Classics

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• Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.

  Euripides

  Men

  Euripides (1915). “Iphigenia in Tauris: An English Version”

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• Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

  John Milton

  Hate, Winning, Hands

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• I should like to bring a case to trial: Prosperity versus Beauty, Cash registers teetering in a balance against the comfort of the soul.

  Amy Lowell

  Soul, Balance, Comfort

  Amy Lowell (1926). “What's o'clock”

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• In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I've seen what men can do for each other and do to each other, I've seen war and peace, feast and famine, depression and prosperity, sickness and health. I've seen the depth of suffering and the peaks of triumph and I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Heart, Men

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