Quotes About Prosperity

Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.

For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

The greatest asset of man is man. The wealth of any man is dependent upon the wealth of every other man. Abundance for one is impossible in an impoverished world.

A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT: Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. How to reach that happy condition? Two ways

A man cannot be comfortable spiritually who is in bondage financially.

It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

Our vision is not just of economic growth, but also of a growth which would improve the life of the common man.

A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

Throw a lucky man into water and he'll surface with a fish in his mouth.

Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.