Prospering Quotes

• We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

  June Jordan

  Fear, White, America

  1969 'Black Studies: Bringing Back the Person', in the Evergreen Review, Oct.

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• Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.

  Joel Osteen

  Success, Money, Abundance

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• After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Usa, People, Investing

  "The Press Under a Free Government". Address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington, archive.org. January 17, 1925.

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• If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

  Brother, Like You, Ifs

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• The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves.

  William J. Clinton

  Preparation, Investing, Economy

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• If your business is to grow and prosper, as a leader, you need to focus on people development.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  People, Focus, Leader

  Twitter post from Jun 27, 2013

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• I truly believe that we are here to bless and prosper, each other.

  Louise Hay

  Inspirational, Blessed, Believe

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• God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

  Randy Alcorn

  Giving, Religion, Standards

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• To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions that honor life, serve life's needs, and restore money to its proper role as servant. I believe we are in fact being called to take a step to a new level of species consciousness and function.

  David Korten

  Life, Inspiring, Money

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• Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked men, who may endeavor to make us enemies. By living in peace, we can help and prosper one another; by waging war, we can kill and destroy many on both sides; but those who survive will not be the happier for that.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, Brother, War

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrongsomebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promisesI say after eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we startedAnd an enormous debt to boot!

  Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

  Country, Money, Jobs

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• No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

  Booker T. Washington

  Inspirational, Work, Writing

  Address at Atlanta International Exposition, Atlanta, Ga., 18 Sept. 1895

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• When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.

  Timothy Keller

  Jobs, Suffering, Stills

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• A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

  Aristophanes

  Men, House, Words Of Wisdom

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• If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

  Daniel Webster

  Bible, Country, Men

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• It does not take a great deal of imagination or courage to believe that God is on your side when you are prospering or winning; it takes a great deal of courage and imagination to believe that God is on your side when you are suffering or losing.

  Peter J. Gomes

  Believe, Winning, Your Side

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• Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts: then the coalition of Pilnitz, outlawing our commerce with France, and the British enforcement of the outlawry. In your day French depredations; in mine English, and the Berlin and Milan decrees: now the English orders of council, and the piracies they authorize. When these shall be over, it will the impressment of our seamen, or something else; and so we have gone on, and so we shall go on, puzzled and prospering beyond example in the history of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Order, Example

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.37, Cambridge University Press

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• Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Friendship, Happiness, Future

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 129

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• There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible.

  Auberon Waugh

  People, World, Sacred

  Auberon Waugh (1986). “Another Voice: An Alternative Anatomy of Britain”

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• The chief business of the American people is business.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Business, People, Chiefs

  Address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors,Washington, D.C., 17 Jan. 1925.

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• The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty years, not since the Nazis were prospering, but it is coming back.

  Norman Mailer

  Night, Years, Civilization

  Norman Mailer (1970). “Cannibals and Christians”

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• Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.

  Nadia Comaneci

  Sports, Country, Revolution

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• For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

  Terry Eagleton

  Kind, Affair, Being Human

  "Ideas for modern living: virtue" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2010.

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• In order to become a success, a business doesn't just have to do well, it has to to better than its competitors. Being number one isn't just about bragging rights. Often it means the difference between prospering and merely hanging on.

  Mitt Romney

  Mean, Rights, Order

  Mitt Romney (2010). “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness”, p.12, Macmillan

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• The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Lying, Thinking

  "The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (Part IV), 1973.

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