Quotes About Prosperity

If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.

The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.

For I know the plans I have for you . . . plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. —Jeremiah 29:11

The real wonder of America's achievement, he professed, was that the "world's largest capitalist country" had "come closest to the ideal of prosperity for all in a classless society." These words strike at the heart of the matter. For Nixon, the United States was more than a land of plenty. Democratic in its collective soul, it had nearly achieved a kind of utopia.

Can a nation call itself free if it finds itself periodically on the verge of bankruptcy and starvation in the face of the fact that it possesses all the materials of the good life?

Wealth is not about having a lot of money. It's about having a lot of options." If you have a high net worth, you have an abundance of opportunities.

High" net worth is a feeling of wholeness. In other words, I don't just want you to have more money, I want you to be free to create the life that makes you happy—whatever that means to you.

It was not, Zelda wrote, prosperity or the softness of life, or any instability that marred the war generation; it was a great emotional disappointment resulting from the fact that life moved in poetic gestures when they were younger and had since settled back into buffoonery.

The dichotomy of man versus environment, or jobs versus environment, or prosperity versus environment, is a dangerous fiction constructed to justify greed. It cynically warrants destruction in the name of the false prophet of progress. That is what I believe.

The advancement and perfection of mathematics are ultimately connected with the prosperity of the state.

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.

Morality, he often argued, is a purely human invention only to be indulged in times of plenty.

It is very difficult to motivate people to revolution when they are extremely comfortable and well off.

As Nobel laureate Milton Friedman wrote in 1962, "Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself…. Economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom."2

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

Money wont create success, the fredom to make it will

I think that everyone is saying all kinds of things about 'rich.' Not only am I rich from doing some of things I've been able to do, but I'm rich in spirit. I'm rich in health. I'm rich in every way possible.

From his abundance we have all received one gracious blessing after another.

Whosoever hath, to him it shall be given, and he shall have more abundance; but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that

The eleventh quality called is Simon of Canaan. A good key phrase for this disciple is "Hearing good news." Simon of Canaan, or Simon from the land of milk and honey, when called to discipleship, is proof that the one who calls this faculty into being has become conscious of the abundant life. He can say with the Psalmist David, "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies; thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

have a large, steady, dependable income, consistent with integrity and mutual benefit