Quotes About Prosperity

Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is true prosperity. It cannot come in the future. Then, in time, that prosperity manifests for you in various ways.

Cuando usted honra, reconoce y acepta plenamente su realidad presente — dónde está, quién es, qué está haciendo ahora mismo — cuando acepta plenamente lo que tiene, usted está agradecido de lo que tiene, de lo que es, de Ser. La gratitud por el momento presente y por la plenitud de la vida ahora es la verdadera prosperidad.

abundance comes only to those who already have it

The same was true of two personified emotions esteemed highest of all feelings in Homer and Hesiod: NEMESIS, usually translated as Righteous Anger, and AIDOS, a difficult word to translate, but in common use among the Greeks. It means reverence and the shame that holds men back from wrongdoing, but it also means the feeling a prosperous man should have in the presence of the unfortunate—not compassion, but a sense that the difference between him and those poor wretches is not deserved.

The only way to not think about money is to have a great deal of it. You might as well say that the only way not to think about air is to have enough to breathe.

Under the glitter of their opportunities she saw the poverty of their achievement.

It had evidently not occurred to her as yet that those who consent to share the bread of adversity may want the whole cake of prosperity for themselves.

the only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Medora Manson, in her prosperous days, inaugurated a literary salon; but it had soon died out owing to the reluctance of the literary to frequent it.

It is generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles and design.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact; and great trade will always be attended with considerable abuses. The contraband will always keep pace in some measure with the fair trade. It should stand as a fundamental maxim, that no vulgar precaution ought to be employed in the cure of evils, which are closely connected with the cause of our prosperity.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free: if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

A brave people will certainly prefer liberty, accompanied with a virtuous poverty, to a depraved and wealthy servitude. But before the price of comfort and opulence is paid, one ought to be pretty sure it is real liberty which is purchased, and that she is to be purchased at no other price. I shall always, however, consider that liberty as very equivocal in her appearance, which has not wisdom and justice for her companions; and does not lead prosperity and plenty in her train.

They that haue much, feare much to loose thereby, And store of cares doth follow riches store.

If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.

If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian [in 96] to the accession of Commodus [in 180].

the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus

The clam of peace and prosperity was once more experienced in the provinces;

The prosperity of the wicked will appear at the last day to have often been the most dreadful judgment, and a state in which they were goaded on in the pursuit of their evil courses; whilst, on the contrary, it will then be manifested to all men that the afflictions of the saints have been the greatest effects of divine mercy.

By the fall of 1918, it was clear that a nation's prosperity, even its very survival, depended on securing a safe, abundant supply of cheap oil.

Everything on this farm spells money in the bank. The farmstead abounds in fresh paint, steel, and concrete. A date on the barn commemorates the founding fathers. The roof bristles with lightning rods, the weathercock is proud with new gilt. Even the pigs look solvent.

We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.

Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence—those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

Such prosperity as we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.