Prosperous Quotes

• Start calling yourself healed, happy, whole, blessed, and prosperous. Stop talking to God about how big your mountains are, and start talking to your mountains about how big your God is!

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Blessed, Talking

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• If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.

  Robert Collier

  Life, Motivational, Money

  Robert Collier (2009). “Riches Within Your Reach!”, p.233, Penguin

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• We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

  Abdul Kalam

  Young Generation, Giving, India

  "Lok Sabha Debates" by India. Parliament, (p. 45), 2003.

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Mean, Men

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  World, May, Prosperity

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• An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Helping Others, People

  "Thesaurus of Epigrams: A New Classified Collection of Witty Remarks, Bon Mots and Toasts". Book by Edmund Fuller, 1948.

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• For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, New Year, New Beginnings

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Inspiring, Thankful

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 16, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Blow, Glitter

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

  Horace

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

  George William Curtis

  Journey, Smooth Sailing, Achievement

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• Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

  Plato

  Sports, Commitment, Land

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• When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Money, Generosity

  "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

  James Allen

  Motivational, Happiness, Men

  Oldiees Publishing, James Allen (2015). “The Book of Inspiration: As a Man Thinketh - AUDIO EDITION OF SELF IMPROVEMENT IDEAS & INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT”, p.7, Oldiees Publishing

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• The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

  Quintilian

  Ideas, Misery, Form

  "De Institutione Oratoria", IX, 6, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 637-38, 1922.

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• It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

  Jane Austen

  Humble, Prosperity, Difficult

  Jane Austen (2015). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion and More”, p.371, Xist Publishing

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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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• A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, War, Men

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• Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Father, Persistence, Brave

  "A Bright Idea: Rescue the Incandescents" by Ken Blackwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2011.

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• God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Believe, Healthy

  "Your Best Life Now". Book by Joel Osteen, October 01, 2004.

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• As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Life, Appreciation, Kindness

  "THE DEMOCRATS: THE KENNEDY FACTOR; 40 Years Later, Invoking Spirit of New Frontier" by Adam Nagourney, www.nytimes.com. August 16, 2000.

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• A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident as to perpetuate their happiness.

  Francis Atterbury

  Humble, People, Victory

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• You can see that a city is prosperous by the wealth of goods for sale in the market. Land too we call prosperous if it bears rich fruit. And so also the soul may be counted prosperous if it is full of good works of every kind.

  Saint Basil

  Land, Cities, Soul

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• The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.

  Martin Van Buren

  Country, Civilization, Hunters

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.17

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