Prosperous Quotes - Page 13

• Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.

  Frank Herbert

  Missing, Police, Criminals

  Frank Herbert (1984). “God Emperor of Dune”

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• Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Thinking, Looks

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• I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Heart, Cities

  'A Tale of Two Cities' (1859) bk. 3, ch. 15 (Sydney Carton's thoughts on the scaffold)

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• We therefore work, not for the work's sake, but for money—and money is supposed to get us what we really want in our hours of leisure and play. In the United States even poor people have lots of money compared with the wretched and skinny millions of India, Africa, and China, while our middle andupper classes (or should we say "income groups") are as prosperous as princes. Yet, by and large, they have but slight taste for pleasure. Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy.

  Alan Watts

  Art, Class, Play

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.58, Souvenir Press

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• The people are immensely likable— cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted, and unfailingly obliging. Their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water. They have a society that is prosperous, well ordered, and instinctively egalitarian. The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn't get much better than this.

  Bill Bryson

  Coffee, Beer, Cities

  Bill Bryson (2001). “In a Sunburned Country”, Broadway

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• Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one fine day surrenders all to love—or to hatred; himself, his house, his land, his memories.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Memories, Cutting, Men

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1962). “Altona ; Men without shadows ; The flies”

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• Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.

  Jim Elliot

  Knowing, Way, Life Is

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• Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.

  John Green

  Amusement, Good Things, Mutual

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.18, A&C Black

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• What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.

  Michael Cunningham

  Running, Morning, Simple

  Michael Cunningham (2013). “The Hours”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.

  James C. Collins

  Mean, Power, Greatness

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• There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

  Charles E. Wilson

  Country, War, People

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• No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.

  Charles E. Wilson

  Suffering, Socialism, Communism

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• Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Beautiful, Daughter, Mother

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1848). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Lord Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore: Sermons”, p.170

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• India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

  Abdul Kalam

  Healthy, India, Value Systems

  "Nuclear Scientist Is New President of India". www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2002.

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• The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Order, Luxury, Want

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• It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .

  Victoria Woodhull

  Country, People, Poverty

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1872). “A Speech on the Impending Revolution”, p.18

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• Whatever you choose for yourself, give to another. If you choose to be happy, cause another to be happy. If you choose to be prosperous, cause another to prosper. If you choose more love in your life, cause another to have more love in theirs.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love, Inspirational, Happy

  Neale Donald Walsch (2011). “Conversations with God, Book 3: Embracing the Love of the Universe (Anniv)”, p.23, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• It's still popular to ... insist that globalization is a rising tide that lifts all boats, but the hard reality is that the last thirty years have seen America's once proud and prosperous working class thrown to the wolves, so corporations could keep boosting their quarterly profits and the middle class could maintain a filmy illusion of wealth through access to cheap consumer goods.

  John Michael Greer

  Reality, Years, Class

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• The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

  William Hazlitt

  Imagination, Ordinary, Want

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.117

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• Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

  Thomas A. Edison

  Faith, Courage, Father

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• We have an opportunity to focus global attention on what should be obvious: every mother, and every child, counts. They count because we value every human life. The evidence is clear that healthy mothers and children are the bedrock of healthy and prosperous communities and nations.

  Lee Jong-wook

  Mother, Children, Opportunity

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• Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Men, Bravery

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.66

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• If you feel just one thing in your life-that life is nothing but the gift of God-you are divine and the most courageous person. Try it! Try it as a thought. The moment you feel that life is a gift, you'll become prosperous.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Gratitude, Feels Just, Trying

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• The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  War, Thinking, Chance

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• Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly." But the word "silly" comes from the old English word "selig," and its literal definition is "to be blessed, happy, healthy and prosperous."

  Zig Ziglar

  Happiness, Meaningful, Silly

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.63, Thomas Nelson Inc

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