Prosperous Quotes - Page 2

• Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man [the man at ease] dreams not of.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Dream, Gratitude, Stars

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1857). “The Saint and His Saviour: Or, The Progress of the Soul in the Knowledge of Jesus”, p.323

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• Your prosperity will grow to the extent that you do. Your feeling of prosperity may require that you overcome the fear of leaving a secure job for a less secure job, with less pay, but a lot more freedom. Fact is, feeling more prosperous doesn't necessarily mean earning more money. Sometimes it means earning less money.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Jobs, Mean, Leaving

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• Days are like years in the love of the young, when no bar, no obstacle, is between their hearts,--when the sun shines, and the course runs smooth--when their love is prosperous and confessed.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Love, Running, Heart

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• You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.

  Emmet Fox

  Attitude, Healthy, Disposition

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• Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Believe, Aunt, East

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• The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.

  Martin Van Buren

  Country, Civilization, Hunters

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.17

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• A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident as to perpetuate their happiness.

  Francis Atterbury

  Humble, People, Victory

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• Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Self, Division Of Labor, Three

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• Nations, as well as individuals, must be virtuous and righteous if they desire to be stable, prosperous, and tranquil.

  Daniel L Dreisbach

  Desire, Individual, Righteous

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• In the longer term, I hope that as Vietnam evolves into a more prosperous society with active ties to the international marketplace, it will lose its inherent suspicion of the outside world and begin to develop along the lines of what has recently been happening in Thailand and Malaysia.

  William J. Duiker

  Ties, Thailand, Lines

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• The focus of President Trump's administration will continue to be to have a safer America, to have a more prosperous America, and to continue to advance the president's agenda, both on Capitol Hill and through executive action and carry that message all across the country.

  Mike Pence

  Country, America, Focus

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I covered the Lebanese civil war. I could see a place that had once been prosperous and now was impoverished. I'm not seeing that in America.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, America, Lebanese

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• There are people in the world who aren't necessarily Christians, but they're just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Nice, People

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• As I travel around the country, the American people are focused on the very same things that President Trump is focused on every day. And that is: How do we advance our national security? How do we make the world a safer and more peaceful place? How do we make America more prosperous? And the president's gonna continue to focus.

  Mike Pence

  Country, People, Focus

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• A core challenge for Australia is - how do we best prepare ourselves for the Asia Pacific century - to maximise the opportunities, to minimise the threats and to make our own active contribution to making this Asia-Pacific Century peaceful, prosperous and sustainable for us all.

  Kevin Rudd

  Opportunity, Australia, Challenges

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

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• Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.

  Marco Rubio

  Government, People, Bigs

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• In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  College, Class, People

  Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf (2013). “Moving the Mountain: A New Vision of Islam in America”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Some of us are darkness lovers. We do not dislike the early and late daylight of June, but we cherish the increasing dark of November, which we wrap around ourselves in the prosperous warmth of wood stove, oil and electric blanket. Inside our warmth we fold ourselves, partly tuber, partly bear, in the dark and its cold - around us, outside us, safely away from us. We tuck ourselves up in the comfort of cold's opposite, warming ourslves by thought of the cold, lighting ourselves by darkness's idea.

  Donald Hall

  Dark, Oil, June

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• Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.

  George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

  Creativity, Creative, Our Society

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• Macau is democratic and free enough.. it's prosperous enough. Why do people need to do this?.

  Stanley Ho

  People, Chinese, Needs

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• There are people who wish to do us harm in the most heinous way. They want to kill Americans simply because they are Americans. They wish to destroy our culture and Nation because they don't like our freedoms, they don't like the fact that we are prosperous.

  Judd Gregg

  People, Wish, Culture

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• Nothing can be more consoling to the man of God, than the conviction that the Lord who made the world governs the world; and that every event, great and small, prosperous and adverse, is under the absolute disposal of Him who doth all things well, and who regulates all things for the good of his people.

  Jerry Bridges

  Men, People, Events

  Jerry Bridges (2017). “31 Days toward Trusting God”, p.108, NavPress

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• Europe will get a stable and prosperous Turkey.

  Olli Rehn

  Europe, Turkeys, Stable

  "Sweet and sour climax to Turkey's long march" by Nicholas Watt, Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2005.

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• In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war. But so what? He is the President of the United States, and you're not. Love it or leave it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, War, Years

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2011). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.486, Simon and Schuster

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• It is unconscionable for children in our prosperous country, or anywhere for that matter, to go without food. I implore everyone to contact their local and state representatives to encourage action to end hunger.

  Kevin Nealon

  Country, Children, Matter

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