Quotes About Prosperity

Being greedy for money is the surest way not to get it, but when one serves for the sake of service—for the satisfaction of doing that which one believes to be right—then money abundantly takes care of itself.

The natural thing to do is to work—to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort.

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

That the earth produces, or is capable of producing, enough to give decent sustenance to everyone—not of food alone, but of everything else we need. For everything is produced from the earth.

The natural thing to do is to work to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort. Human ills flow largely from attempting to escape from this natural course.

Politics in the true sense, have to do with the prosperity, peace and security of the people.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

but in the sense of all having enough to completely satisfy all physical wants; of all having enough to get such an easy living that we could develop the better part of humanity.

The world is my lobster.

I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

On the eve of the war, when tsarist Russia had attained the highest point of its prosperity, the national income per capita was eight to ten times less than in the United States—a fact which is not surprising when you consider that four-fifths of the self-supporting population of Russia was occupied with agriculture, while in the United States, for every one engaged in agriculture, two and one-half were engaged in industry.

The early church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.

Half the world's rubber. c. Three-fourths the world's silk. d. One-third the world's coal. e. Two-thirds the world's crude oil. Is it not possible that there is some factor in our system that is responsible for this approach to a national plenty? Perhaps we think it is one thing when it really is something none of us identify. What is this "X" factor, this mystery factor? Is not a search for it advisable?

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Ebenezer Scrooge is no castoff drunk, but the very emblem of economic achievement.

The prosperity of a book lies in the minds of readers. Public knowledge and public taste fluctuate; and there come times when works which were once capable of instructing and delighting thousands lose their power, and works, before neglected, emerge into renown.

The problem is that wealth ceases to move freely when all things are counted and priced. It may accumulate in great heaps, but fewer and fewer people can afford to enjoy it. After the

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.

May Allah guide us to the good of the kingdom of Bahrain and its loyal people.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.