Prosperity Quotes - Page 24

• If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Education, Women, Growing

  Democracy in America vol. 2, sec. 3, ch. 12 (1840) (translation by Henry Reeve)

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• A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.

  Washington Irving

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

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• If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.

  Eamon de Valera

  Country, Garden, Kitchen

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• The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.

  Jacques Barzun

  Music, Names, Piano

  Jacques Barzun (1984). “Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980”, p.54, University of Chicago Press

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• In prosperity, give thanks to God with humility and fear lest by pride you abuse God's benefits and so offend him.

  Louis IX of France

  Humility, Pride, Giving

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• Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

  Elizabeth I

  Adversity

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.117, University of Chicago Press

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• One who was abhorred by all in prosperity is adored by all in adversity.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Adversity

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom".

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• We've got the most prosperous culture in human history and we've also got the biggest spiritual hole in human history. People are saying, "I can't fill the hole with money. I can't fill it with alcohol, or drugs, or sex, so what do I need to fill it with?"

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Spiritual, Money, Sex

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• Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.

  Sallust

  Wise, Soul, Trying

  Sallust, John Carew Rolfe (1931). “Sallust”, Loeb Classical Library

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• There cannot be a sense of abundance or the experience of prosperity without appreciation. You cannot find beauty unless you appreciate beauty. You cannot find friendship unless you appreciate others. You cannot find love unless you appreciate loving and being loved. If you wish abundance, appreciate life.

  William R. Miller

  Appreciation, Appreciate Beauty, Finding Love

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• Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

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• Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise all our attention to Heaven; esteeming sin as the only true evil, and nothing truly good, but virtue which unites us to God.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Real, Adversity, True Evil

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• We already have so much abundance. We truly do. We need not search too far. It is within. The reason we fail to recognize this is because we haven't quite mastered the art of being. For abundance to prevail, we must have LOVE, gratitude, acceptance and compassion.

  John Welwood

  Love, Gratitude, Art

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• You exist in time: future, present, and past. This is manifest in life, liberty, and the product of your life and liberty. The exercise of choices over life and liberty is your prosperity. To lose your life is to lose your future. To lose your liberty is to lose your present. And to lose the product of your life and liberty is to lose the portion of your past that produced it.

  Ken Schoolland

  Life, Future, Exercise

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• The right tools for solving disputes within our community are precision instruments such as reason, communication, empathy, curiosity, and understanding. They are also the right tools for building a global civilization of peace and prosperity.

  Paul K. Chappell

  Communication, Civilization, Empathy

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• The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Personality, Church

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• A new politics can spark the clean-energy revolution that will serve as a foundation for a new era of human prosperity, protect the world's forests, stabilize the climate, and preserve the diversity of life on the planet.

  Eban Goodstein

  Diversity, Foundation, Energy

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• In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.

  Richard G. Wilkinson

  Development, Way, Environment

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• The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.

  Aesop Rock

  Bridges, Cities, Legacy

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• Magick, in essence, is the ability to communicate to the universe what you want in an effective way, so that the universe can then respond and create what you desire.

  Christopher Penczak

  Essence, Desire, Want

  Christopher Penczak (2009). “The Witch's Coin: Prosperity and Money Magick”, p.65, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• The secret of true prosperity is finding our security through our connection with the divine, with the spiritual world.

  Christopher Penczak

  Spiritual, Secret, Connections

  Christopher Penczak (2009). “The Witch's Coin: Prosperity and Money Magick”, p.32, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.

  Francois Hollande

  Growth, Vision, Employment

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• You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world.

  George Osborne

  World, Way, Wealth

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• No nation has ever failed to prosper when its people put God first and their country second

  Harold Lindsell

  Country, People, Firsts

  Harold Lindsell (1973). “The world, the flesh, and the Devil”

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• Only cheaters prosper.

  Howard Tayler

  Cheater

  "Schlock Mercenary (The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries)". Comedic webcomic by Howard Tayler, (June 12, 2000 - ).

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