quotations about prosperity
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
Prosperity makes few friends.
LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES
Reflections and Maxims
Prosperity should bring to the surface our highest and best qualities, for we are always on trial when fortune smiles upon us.
WALTER MATTHEWS
"Prosperity", Human Life from Many Angles
If capitalism persists for several more centuries, as seems to be highly likely, then from the vantage point of the future, capitalism may be seen as the system responsible for the transformation of the human condition from one of mass subsistence to mass prosperity.
VICTOR D. LIPPIT
Capitalism
It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
JANE AUSTEN
Emma
It is because of their tranquil thoughts
That creatures go to prosperity.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Iti-Vuttaka
The fact is prosperity has a purpose. It's to allow us to pursue "the better angels," to give us time to think and grow.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
In times of prosperity people should prepare for a change. Prosperity often inflates and puffs up people of narrow vision. They often imagine they are high and mighty, and look down on frugal people with contempt, but a truly noble and resolute character finds a valuable lesson in adversity and profits by it.
WALTER MATTHEWS
"Prosperity", Human Life from Many Angles
Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;
But seas do laugh, snow white, when rocks are near.
JOHN WEBSTER
The White Devil
No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
DEAN KOONTZ
Forever Odd
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity, on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart -- not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.
BARACK OBAMA
Inaugural Address, January 20, 2009
It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.
GEORGE ELIOT
Felix Holt
When things go well, you should be suspicious. When things go exceptionally well, start sniffing for the dog crap on the bottom of your shoe.
ROB THURMAN
Nightlife
Much effort, much prosperity.
EURIPIDES
The Suppliant Women
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
Alfred Hagart's Household
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
We should not speak of one that prospers well
As happy, till his life have run its course,
And reached its goal. An evil spirit's gift
In shortest time has oft laid low the state
Of one full rich in great prosperity,
When the change comes, and so the Gods appoint.
SOPHOCLES
Fragment
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
ANNE BRADSTREET
Meditations Divine and Moral
Prosperity is a more refined and severer test of character than adversity, as one hour of summer sunshine produces greater corruption than the longest winter day.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust