Prosperity Quotes - page 16

While conditions in the United States because of the World War are serious, they are so much better than in the years following the close of the Civil War, that we who have had the double experience can be greatly encouraged. Then one-half of our country was devastated, its industries destroyed or paralyzed; now we are united and stronger in every way. Then we had a paper currency and a dangerous inflation, now we are on a gold standard and with an excellent banking and credit system. The development of our resources and wonderful inventions and discoveries since the Civil War place us in the foremost position to enter upon world commerce when all other nations have come as they must to co-operation and co-ordination upon lines for the preservation of peace and the promotion of international prosperity. (Chauncey Depew)
We find in certain localities subterranean deposits of coal consisting of vegetable matter formerly drifted into seas and lakes. ...These seas and The commercial prosperity and numerical strength of a nation may now be mainly dependent on the local distribution of fuel determined by that ancient state of things. View quote
Charles Lyell
When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
Another change in the constitution relates to the length of the tenure of the presidential office. In the new constitution it is six years instead of four, and the President rendered ineligible for a re-election. This is certainly a decidedly conservative change. It will remove from the incumbent all temptation to use his office or exert the powers confided to him for any objects of personal ambition. The only incentive to that higher ambition which should move and actuate one holding such high trusts in his hands, will be the good of the people, the advancement, prosperity, happiness, safety, honor, and true glory of the confederacy. View quote
Alexander H. Stephens
Neo-conservatives are unlike old conservatives because they are utilitarians, not moralists, and because their aim is the prosperity of post-industrial society, not the recovery of a golden age. View quote
Irving Kristol
Through exploitation of its influence over global financial affairs, the United States has been able to cover the costs of its hegemonic position, preserve a false domestic prosperity, and mask the consequences of its relative political and economic decline. View quote
Robert Gilpin
Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world. View quote
Angela Merkel
I am informing you of our displeasure over the arrest of the Iranian civilian official without consulting the government of Kurdistan. That is a humiliation for the regional administration. You ignored our authority. I ask for his immediate release in order to maintain healthy relations between Iran and Kurdistan and for the prosperity of Kurdistan. View quote
Jalal Talabani
The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism. View quote
Václav Klaus
People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world. View quote
John Stossel
It was a saying of his that education was an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. (Diogenes Laërtius)
Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. View quote
Quintus Curtius Rufus
Prosperity and penury do not turn on gyno-centric and gay matters. But leftist statists and libertarians of the left place these wedge issues at the forefront of the fight for freedom. [...] Every bit as bad as liberals, "libertarian" political operators are prepared to shed political blood over any imagined sign of bigotry. View quote
Ilana Mercer
...free market is a market in which groups and individuals are differently represented. Parity in prosperity and performance between differently able individuals and groups can be achieved only by playing socialist leveler. View quote
Ilana Mercer
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it. View quote
Horace
I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity. View quote
Kin Hubbard
The most likely scenario is that EMU (Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union) will occur but will neither end Europe's currency troubles nor solve its prosperity problems. View quote
Rudiger Dornbusch
Roaming the world as a foreign correspondent for more than a decade, I was able to observe how a variety of vastly different nations organized themselves economically. The inescapable conclusion was that no politician anywhere on the planet has ever actually created a rupee's worth of prosperity. View quote
Louis Rukeyser
As the fire doth mount upwards, and the needle that is touched with the loadstone still turneth to the north, so the converted soul is inclined to God. Nothing else can satisfy him, nor can he find any content and rest but in his love. In a word, all that are converted do esteem and love God better than all the world; and the heavenly felicity is dearer to them than their fleshly prosperity. View quote
Richard Baxter
A jests prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. View quote
William Shakespeare
Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity. (Arthur Laffer)
Prosperity and security are ours in heaven. We will live in peace and safety. View quote
Paul Enns
I will not pursue trickle-down economics, but will implement bottom-up economics aimed at getting the poor out of poverty into prosperity. View quote
Peter Mutharika
It was as though some stubborn god spent their time in an immutable and absurd balancing act between life and death, prosperity and poverty. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people. Therefore I have cause to wish nothing more than to content the subject and that is a duty which I owe. Neither do I desire to live longer days than I may see your prosperity and that is my only desire. View quote
Elizabeth I of England