Quotes About Prosperity

There is no doubt that many things in life come to us...at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them.

Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.

In the last few centuries we've managed to reduce how much we kill each other, we've learned some basic lessons about public health, and life is relatively good for more people than ever before.

For life is only life when blessed with health.

In life, success begets success.

The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase Even as our days do grow!

There's never a better way of living than just improving our quality of life.

We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.

We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.

Some people get dealt all the aces in life.

Life lives only in success.

Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . .

We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.

But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.

I have so many wonderful people in my life. I've never had any major physical problems or an accident or anything like that. I'm a very, very lucky person, thus far, knock on wood.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

Their united reigns [the Antonines'] are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.

Garbage has become one of the most accurate measures of prosperity in twenty-first century America and the world.

whether in London's ornate arcades or Rio's fractious favelas, whether in the high-rises of Hong Kong or the dusty workspaces of Dharavi, our culture, our prosperity, and our freedom are all ultimately gifts of people living, working, and thinking together—the ultimate triumph of the city.

The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal,' de Tocqueville wrote, 'but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or wretchedness.

Summers complained of 'the development of stateless elites whose allegiance is to global economic success and their own prosperity rather than the interests of the nation where they are headquartered'.75

Success on Wall Street was getting the most money. Success for us was having the best life.

Wealth, which I use synonymously with the accountants' term net worth, shows how rich you are now, whereas income measures how much money your wealth, labor, and ingenuity are currently generating.