Prosperity Quotes

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. (Aristotle)
Only when man's life comes to end in prosperity can one call that man happy. View quote
Aeschylus
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. View quote
Francis Bacon
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. View quote
William Hazlitt
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. View quote
Washington Irving
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. View quote
George Washington
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other. View quote
William Howard Taft
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. View quote
Victor Hugo
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. (Joseph Addison)
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury. View quote
Herbert Hoover
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. View quote
Francis Bacon
Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know. View quote
Mark Twain
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. View quote
Winston Churchill
We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage. (Abdul Kalam)
All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind. View quote
Eisaku Sato
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. View quote
John Churton Collins
If there be light, then there is darkness if cold, heat if height, depth if solid, fluid if hard, soft if rough, smooth if calm, tempest if prosperity, adversity if life, death. View quote
Pythagoras
The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity. View quote
Martin Van Buren