Quotes
Quotes about Prosperity
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.
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.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Affliction is the good man's shining scene; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray; As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Prosperity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New.
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
[Magic] is not mere superstition. It can corrupt people who otherwise carry on their daily duties with apparent reasonableness and common sense... It exploits man's urgent desire for all the material good things of lifeâhealth, prosperity, success, "good luck"âand at times, it may even descend to aggressive acts against one's competitors and supposed enemies and rivals. It rests upon an assumption, not always explicit, that divine power can be manipulated and used for human ends. And it is the more dangerous among people who assume that since God is love, He will do whatever they ask, provided they use the right formula in asking. Magic mocks God's freedom no less than His purpose. For it binds men more and more in a prison of fear and selfishness. Far from liberating divine power, it shuts out the free and creative forces of love and self-sacrifice that alone ennoble life and remove the alienation of men one from another. Love, not compulsion, casts out fear.
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. [Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.]
American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected.
Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]
