Prosperity Quotes - Page 4

• A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

  James Allen

  Motivational, Happiness, Men

  Oldiees Publishing, James Allen (2015). “The Book of Inspiration: As a Man Thinketh - AUDIO EDITION OF SELF IMPROVEMENT IDEAS & INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT”, p.7, Oldiees Publishing

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• You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sound, Libertarian, Trouble

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• The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

  Epicurus

  Adversity, Mind, Casts

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• Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  World, May, Prosperous

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• Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

  Mark Twain

  Political, Principles, Literature

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

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• The real wealth of a nation is its people. And the purpose of development is to create an enabling environment for people to enjoy long, healthy, and creative lives. This simple but powerful truth is too often forgotten in the pursuit of material and financial wealth.

  Mahbub ul Haq

  Life, Truth, Powerful

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• Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Enemy

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• Prosperity's the very bond of love.

  William Shakespeare

  Bonds Of Love

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

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• The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Money, Economic Inequality, History

  Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937

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• Whatever you choose for yourself, give to another. If you choose to be happy, cause another to be happy. If you choose to be prosperous, cause another to prosper. If you choose more love in your life, cause another to have more love in theirs.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love, Inspirational, Happy

  Neale Donald Walsch (2011). “Conversations with God, Book 3: Embracing the Love of the Universe (Anniv)”, p.23, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.

  Ralph Bunche

  Education, Peace, Freedom

  "Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time". Ralph Bunche's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1950.

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• Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked men, who may endeavor to make us enemies. By living in peace, we can help and prosper one another; by waging war, we can kill and destroy many on both sides; but those who survive will not be the happier for that.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, Brother, War

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

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• We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrongsomebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promisesI say after eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we startedAnd an enormous debt to boot!

  Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

  Country, Money, Jobs

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• Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

  Earl Nightingale

  Giving, Wealth, Abundance

  Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale (2015). “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

  Eric Butterworth

  Success, Money, Thinking

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• He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Adversity, Shrinks

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• No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

  Heraclitus

  Encounters, Doe, Danger

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• Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.

  Mark Twain

  Mean, Men, Ideas

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• Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, True Friend, Real Friends

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• Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Summer, Heat, Sometimes

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.

  George Eliot

  Country

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.234

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• The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

  Martin Van Buren

  Government, Presidential, Pursuit

  Martin Van Buren (1969). “Martin Van Buren, 1782-1862: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”

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• Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.

  Plutarch

  Soul, Looks, Noble

  "Plutarch's Lives in Eight Volumes".

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• Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

  Herbert Hoover

  Treasury

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

  Aristotle

  Virtue

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