Quotes About Prosperity

In every permanent situation, where there is no expectation of change, the mind of every man, in a longer or shorter time, returns to its natural and usual state of tranquility. In prosperity, after a certain time, it falls back to that state; in adversity, after a certain time, it rises up to it.12

the groups that used them to construct moral communities were the ones that lasted and prospered. Like those nineteenth-century religious communes, they used their gods to elicit sacrifice and commitment from members.

As I get older I find that the friendships that are the most certain, ultimately, are the ones where you and the other person have made substantial amounts of money for one another.

Everywhere that I have studied happiness some very simple patterns hold: a stable marriage, good health, and enough (but not too much) income are good for happiness. Unemployment, divorce, and economic instability are terrible for happiness—everywhere that happiness is studied.

Money is applause.

becoming better off economically seemed to make people less satisfied.

richer people were happier than poorer people, but getting richer didn't make a country happier.

May God give you Of the dew of the heavens, And the richness of the earth, And abundant grain and wine. May nations serve you And peoples bow down to you. Rule over your brothers, And may your mother's sons bow down to you. (Gen. 27:28–29)

Seek the welfare of the city to which I have exiled you and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its prosperity you shall prosper" (Jer. 29:7) – the first statement in history of what it is to be a creative minority.

The truth is that the Will of God for us always means greater freedom, greater self-expression, wider and newer and brighter experience; better health, greater prosperity, wider opportunity of service to others—life more abundant.

When we have gold we are in fear, when we have none we are in danger.

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty

Fame and success are very different things.

Jangan iri kepada siapa pun, karena orang baik tidak layak diirikan. Sedangkan orang jahat, semakin mereka makmur, semakin mereka merusak diri sendiri.

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

Dondequiera que haya escasez de cualquier tipo, es porque hay un bloqueo en el fluir de la abundancia.

Self-government will not work unless the citizens bear the responsibility to vote in such a way that continues their freedoms and their ability to have free elections, that continues their economic prosperity. They have to vote in a way that does not trade the future for the present. This

our people could only see all this, they would stop grumbling about their own misfortunes and offer thanks to God for blessing them with such abundance."6

The big question of our time is not Can it be built? but Should it be built? This places us in an unusual historical moment: our future prosperity depends on the quality of our collective imaginations.

Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.

Lagrange's father, once Treasurer of War for Sardinia, married Marie-Thérèse Gros, the only daughter of a wealthy physician of Cambiano, by whom he had eleven children. Of this numerous brood only the youngest, Joseph-Louis, born on January 25, 1736, survived beyond infancy.

Many men want wealth--not a competence alone, but a five-story competence. Every thing subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning rod to their houses, to ward off, by and by, the bolts of divine wrath.