Quotes of Prosperity - somelinesforyou

“ Everything in the world may be endured, except continual prosperity. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously. ”

- J. Kindleberger

“ War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. ”

- Ludwig von Mises

“ If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ”

- Anne Bradstreet

“ The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come. ”

- Lee Iacocca

“ Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. ”

- Calvin Coolidge

“ In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one. ”

- James Burgh

“ Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity. ”

- Plutarch

“ Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity. ”

- Saadi

“ All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination. ”

- Ruth Ross

“ Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in. ”

- James Reston

“ Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn. ”

- Earl Nightingale

“ Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. ”

- Don Marquis

“ I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it. ”

- Catherine Ponder

“ No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. ”

- Rush Limbaugh

“ Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest. ”

- Paul Zane Pilzer

“ Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Prosperity makes few friends. ”

- Marquis de Vauvenargues

“ Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. ”

- Pliny the Elder

“ Ten ancient commandments lousing up the fun. Along came prosperity, and then there was none. ”

- Gerald Barzan

“ The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. ”

- Alan Gregg

“ We have believed — and we do believe now — that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible. ”

- Indira Gandhi

“ When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. ”

- Confucius
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