Best 665 quotes in «prosperity quotes» category

A well-prepared mind hopes in adversity and fears in prosperity. [Lat., Sperat infestis, metuit secundis Alteram sortem, bene preparatum Pectus.]

Begin to recognize prosperity everywhere, and rejoice in it.

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.

Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.

Business success isn't just a selfish aim. Profits spread beyond those who make them and bring jobs and prosperity.

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.

Compassion is easily forsaken in the midst of prosperity, even when this prosperity is God given.

Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.

Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life.

Discover your uniqueness and learn to exploit it in the service of others, and you are guaranteed success, happiness, and prosperity.

Distress: A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend.

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we’re good enough.

Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in a slump, an economic crisis.

Enduring faith is not blind or obedient, it is keenly attentive and responsible; it is not fed by awe, but by quickening interest; prosperity is not the disappearance of problems, but the continual engagement with the process of finding solutions. Wisdom is not given from on high, but must be painstakingly unraveled from the knots in his own guts.

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity.

Europeans know that their great experiment in building peace, unity and prosperity cannot survive as a privileged enclave, surrounded on its outskirts by breeding grounds of hatred and fanaticism.

Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen, Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

For the turning away of the simple, shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

God's will concerning financial prosperity and abundance is clearly revealed in the Scriptures.

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

free market is a market in which groups and individuals are differently represented. Parity in prosperity and performance between differently able individuals and groups can be achieved only by playing socialist leveler.

Governments never supply prosperity.  At best, they can facilitate it, by allowing the free enterprise system to work.  Usually they suppress it.

Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue.

Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.

Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.

He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.

He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

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

Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.

If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a 'stimulus,' then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to unprecedented prosperity, instead of runaway inflation and widespread economic desperation that ultimately brought Adolf Hitler to power.

If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads toward poverty.

I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair share of business prosperity. But it either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anybody can get any benefit from it.

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.

I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working classes, though they share in the general prosperity, do not share in it so largely as in the general adversity.

In terms of our region, what we need to ensure is that the rise of China [is] conducted in a manner that does not disturb the security and the relative harmony of the region upon which China's prosperity depends. Now - now, that requires careful diplomacy, it requires balancing.

It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only momentarily, and at that always only as the harbinger of a coming crisis.