Quotes About Prosperity

The virtue of prosperity, is temperance; the virtue of adversity, is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

Between 2000 and 2016, half of Americans saw no gains to their real incomes; the proportion of national output going to the top 1 percent went from 9 percent of GDP in 1974 to 24 percent in 2008.5

Let all thy joys be as the month of May, And all thy days be as a marriage day.

Seest thou good days? Prepare for evil times. No summer but hath its winter. He never reaped comfort in adversity that sowed not in prosperity.

Sale de la guerra, la paz; de la paz, la abundancia; de la abundancia, el ocio; del ocio, el vicio; del vicio, la guerra

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.

Historically some of the most prosperous societies - Ancient Athens, Renaissance Italy, nineteenth century Britain - were among those that were most oriented towards experimentation and the taking of risks.

When you are conscious you have all the relationships you choose to have. When you choose to be healthy and prosperous you are clear about what your body requires and the direction your career is headed.

The best revenge is massive success

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

We are moving forward to greater freedom, to greater security for the average man than he has ever known before in the history of America.

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

Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living.

The most efficient labor-saving device is still money.

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

But there is also another tendency that is common among people. When they can, they wish to live and prosper at the expense of others.

For every state, from the smallest to the largest, the principle of enlargement is the fundamental law of life.

The epistemological separation of colony from metropolis, the systemic occultation of the colonial labour on which imperial prosperity is based, results in a situation in which... the truth of metropolitan existence is not visible in the metropolis itself

He is rich who owes nothing.

Ready money works great cures.

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue

Don't prioritize wealth over health, the two go hand in hand.