Quotes About Prosperity

People who believe they can succeed see opportunities where others see threats.

Affluence creates poverty.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else.

This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

For this life is one of first fruits, not of tithes.

For the statement of Isaiah (28:19) is true: "Trouble gives understanding"; likewise, hunger is the best condiment. For those who are afflicted have a better understanding of the Holy Scriptures; the smug and prosperous read them as if they were some poem written by Ovid.

And the human mind endures misfortunes of any kind more easily than prosperity and abundance, as the German proverb puts it: "Strong legs are needed to be able to endure good days.

That is, as he says here, he should bend off neither to the right hand nor to the left, but move forward straight and firmly in prosperity and adversity, in strength and weakness, in glory and shame, clinging faithfully and bravely to the Word of God alone.

They turn the heart away much more strongly than adversity and want do, as he says in his song (Deut. 32:15): "Having become swollen, fat, and thick, he rebelled"; and (Prov. 1:32): "The prosperity of the foolish destroys them"; as is said also in the German proverb: "You need strong legs to hold up under good days." For man endures evil more easily than good, as the poet says: "Luxury has invaded as a deadlier foe."2

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

The more I give to thee, the more I have.

For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

La Samaritaine and the Cognacqs were also thriving.

what should have been their first care—the unity and prosperity of their own nation;

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.

If everyone in this world began in the same way to speak only words of love, what would the world be like? Speaking words of love means that all the energy works actively toward the positive. It means talking of happiness, prosperity, and health, and never talking about misfortune, illness, poverty, and so forth, no matter what. Word is alive. Word is energy. Word has the power to create. Everything is determined by word.

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

A healthy body is better than a healthy bank account.