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Quotes About Prosperity

It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.
~ Arthur Vandenberg
If Fortune calls, offer him a seat.
~ Yiddish Proverb
Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!
~ Euripides
The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.
~ John Adams
There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.
~ Saint Basil
All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
~ Samuel Butler
It requires a strong constitution to withstand repeated attacks of prosperity.
~ J. L. Basford
They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree.
~ Bible
Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.
~ Vauvenargues
It is to the middle class we must look for the safety of England.
~ William Thackeray
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass.
~ Bible
There are so many people with all kinds of lucky things happening to them, and they don't know how to use it.
~ Rocky Aoki
It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.
~ Publilius Syrus
Fortune is with you for an hour, and against you for ten!
~ Arab proverb
The profits of good luck are perishable; if you build on fortune, you build on sand; the more advancement you achieve, the more dangers you run.
~ Marquis de Racan
A little house well filled, a little land well tilled, and a little wife well willed, are great riches.
~ Anonymous
That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament, not of income.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Success is a great healer.
~ Gertrude Atherton
Unto everyone that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
~ Bible
Here's to your good health, and your family's good health, and may you all live long and prosper.
~ Washington Irving
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation.
~ Bible