Quotes on Prosperity

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.

Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity

If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.

A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can't cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.

If Europe today accounts for just over 7 per cent of the world's population, produces around 25 per cent of global GDP and has to finance 50 per cent of global social spending, then it's obvious that it will have to work very hard to maintain its prosperity and way of life.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

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

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.

While we have created prosperity for many, too many are being left behind.

No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest.

The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.