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Quotes About Prosperity

The system we have, in which there are a few kings and lots of common people, cannot generate wealth. It
~ Chetan Bhagat
Where there is sunshine the doctor starves.
~ Flemish Proverb
...without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
~ Sophron (Samuel Johnson), 1750
Not double trouble, but twice blessed.
~ Author Unknown
But enough of these petty Personalities. I quit them to rejoice with you in the Peace God has blest us with, and in the Prosperity it gives us a Prospect of... We are now Friends with England and with all Mankind. May we never see another War! for in my Opinion there never was a good War, or a bad Peace.
~ Benjamin Franklin, 1783
May all the blessings of heaven rain down upon you and yours.
~ Irish blessing
When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener.
~ Polish Proverb
...all which we behold Is full of blessings...
~ William Wordsworth, 1798
As the golden news spread beyond California to the outside world, it triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. From all over the planet they came—from Mexico and Peru and Chile and Argentina, from Oregon and Hawaii and Australia and New Zealand and China, from the American North and the American South, from Britain and France and Germany and Italy and Greece and Russia.
~ H.W. Brands
Start each day with gratitude, and each day will bring abundance
~ H.W. Mann
I only have one desire, the ultimate desire is to make our country completely independent, our people completely free, all compatriots have food to eat, clothes to wear, everyone has the opportunity to study.
~ H? Chí Minh
Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous, and fortune is so blind that in a crowd in which there is perhaps but one wise and brave man it is not to be expected that she should single him out.
~ Héloïse d'Argenteuil
Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that.
~ Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
~ Hannah Arendt
Health is not simply the absence of sickness.
~ Hannah Green
Monroe's presidency made poor men rich, turned political allies into friends, and united a divided people as no president had done since Washington.
~ Harlow Giles Unger
Most of our people have never had it so good.
~ Harold MacMillan
A woman's health is her capital.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
To me, success is choice and opportunity.
~ Harrison Ford
Prosperity often subverts what adversity cannot destroy
~ Harry Ammon
If there were no shortage of human resources in this world, consumers could buy everything and have everything they wanted. Then there would be no point in wondering how to succeed.
~ Harry Browne
A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to death of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.
~ Harry Browne
You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don't know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don't know how much I pay in taxes.
~ Haruki Murakami
the American cowboy was born of Reconstruction and carried all the hallmarks of the strife of the immediate postwar years: he was a hardworking white man who started from nothing, asked for nothing, and could rise on his own. The reality was that about a third of all cowboys were men of color—black or Mexican, and sometimes Indian—and that few rose to prosperity.
~ Heather Cox Richardson