Prosperity Quotes - Page 36

• The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Honor, Principles, Credit

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• Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity

  Yatin Patel

  Perseverance, Perception, Promise

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• The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward through the ranks.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Average, Firsts, Rich

  Campaign address, Detroit, Mich., 2 Oct. 1932

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• Prosperity has no power over adversity.

  Publilius Syrus

  Adversity

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• In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually acquire courage, faith, the will to succeed and the capacity to love.

  Alexis Carrel

  Fall, Capacity To Love, Effort

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• I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office, irrespective of former party opinions, who will endeavour to make the new constitutions and the laws passed under them as beneficial as possible to the true interests, prosperity, and liberty of all classes and conditions of the people.

  Robert E. Lee

  Party, Intelligent, Men

  Robert E. Lee, Ben Wynne (2004). “Recollections and Letters”, p.241, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.

  Ben Jonson

  Prayer, Wicked Person, Affliction

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3176, Delphi Classics

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• Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.

  Euripides

  Men

  Euripides (1915). “Iphigenia in Tauris: An English Version”

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• Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

  John Milton

  Hate, Winning, Hands

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• I should like to bring a case to trial: Prosperity versus Beauty, Cash registers teetering in a balance against the comfort of the soul.

  Amy Lowell

  Soul, Balance, Comfort

  Amy Lowell (1926). “What's o'clock”

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• In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I've seen what men can do for each other and do to each other, I've seen war and peace, feast and famine, depression and prosperity, sickness and health. I've seen the depth of suffering and the peaks of triumph and I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Heart, Men

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• Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.

  Thucydides

  Adversity, Easier, Mankind

  Thucydides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated)”, p.176, Delphi Classics

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

  Wilkie Collins

  Important, Fool, Modern

  Wilkie Collins (1863). “No Name: A Novel”, p.33

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• See how the Fates their gifts allot, For A is happy-B is not. Yet B is worthy, I dare say, Of more prosperity than A.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Fate, Dare, Worthy

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.705, Oxford University Press

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• For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height of prosperity; then at life's end with limbs worn out by old age and wrinkles adorning his face, like an actor he retires behind the curtain of death.

  Bhartrhari

  Boys, Men, Wrinkles

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• In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward and punishment instrumental in persuading man to obey divine commandments.

  Israel Shenker

  Bible, Fate, Men

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• ... We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical advantages, and have been encouraged to attribute our prosperity and general success among nations, to that sort of action. In my opinion, hard work and dedication to logic and reason ought to be recognized as the reasons for our achievements, not appeals to a mythical friend-in-the-sky. We got where we are in spite of, not because of, those incantations.

  James Randi

  Prayer, Hard Work, Dedication

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• Our negative thoughts are valuable messages to us about our deeper fears and negative attitudes. These usually are so basic to our thinking and feeling that we don't realize they are beliefs at all. We assume that they are simply "the way life is." We may be consciously affirming and visualizing prosperity, but if our unconscious belief is that we don't deserve it, then we won't create it. Once we become aware of our core negative beliefs, they begin to heal.

  Shakti Gawain

  Attitude, Thinking, Feelings

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, New World Library

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• The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.

  William Barclay

  Independence, Danger

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• ... in the present State of America, our welfare and prosperity depend upon the cultivation of our lands and turning the produce of them to the best advantage.

  George Washington

  Land, America, Welfare

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1786). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”

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• The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.

  Ted Cruz

  Opportunity, World, Free Market

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• The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

  Omar Bongo

  Happiness, Humanity, Path

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• Smart, sustainable, inclusive growth is the key to job-creation and the future prosperity of Europe.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Jobs, Smart, Keys

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• Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Home, Mean, Warrior

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", January 20, 2006.

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• Opportunity today, prosperity tomorrow.

  Julian Castro

  Opportunity, Today, Tomorrow

  Julian Castro's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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