Prosperity Quotes

"Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy."
-Aeschylus

"Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want."
-Abert F. Geoffrey

"Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."
-Socrates

"A jest's prosperity lies in the ear. Of him that hears it, never in the tongue. Of him that makes it."
-William Shakespeare

"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. "
-Calvin Coolidge

"Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue."
-Sir Francis Bacon

"We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it."
-Bill Clinton

"Prosperity makes few friends."
-Luc De Clapier De Vauvanargues

"Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them."
-Publilius Syrus

"Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it."
-Cicero

"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends."
-John Churton Collins

"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

"Administrative rules that meet the objective of the agency, while not being overly burdensome to small business, are key to the economic growth and prosperity of Wisconsin's economy."
-Mary Burke

"The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity."
-Alan Gregg

"Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great."
-Rose F. Kennedy

"He's clearly made economic prosperity the hallmark of his administration."
-Allan Zaremberg

"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."
-William Hazlitt

"The prosperity of a country is in accordance with its treatment of the aged."
-Hasidic Proverb

"These loans will help finance economic revitalization in areas that have experienced trade-related job losses attributable to NAFTA. NAFTA has been a net plus for the nation's economy, and the Clinton/Gore Administration's free trade policies have been a big contributor to our nation's economic prosperity."
-Aida Alvarez

"I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools."
-Wilkie Collins

"To paraphrase Greenspan, (Intel is) a beacon of light. We think Intel is in an oasis of prosperity in this world of distress."
-Ashok Kumar

"It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies."
-Hugh Macdiarmid

"Do you want to trust and like the president--is that more important--or do you believe you have to vote for Gore to keep the peace and prosperity we've had the last eight years?"
-Terry Madonna

"No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity."
-Rush Limbaugh

"World language courses are developing students in a capacity in European and Asian languages and this gives them a deeper understanding of not only language, but culture. It brings prosperity and peace to this world."
-Gaston Caperton

"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one is adversity."
-Plutarch

"Remember God in prosperity, and He will remember you in adversity."
-Abu Muhammad