P Quotes
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“Prosperity is earning enough through your efforts to be able to get up the next morning and do it again.”
Source: Endeavor: Cultivate Excellence While Making a Difference
“Prosperity is full of friends.”
Source: Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts
“Prosperity is in some cases more burdensome than poverty is in some cases.”
“Prosperity is inevitable for those who understand the principles of wealth and live by them.”
“Prosperity is just around the corner.”
Source: Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941
“Prosperity is like perfume, it often makes the head ache.”
“Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.”
Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson
“Prosperity is no idle expression. It is a job for every worker; it is the safety and safeguard of very business and every home. A continuation of the policies of the Republican party is fundamentally necessary to the future advancement of this progress and to the further building up of this prosperity.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Herbert Hoover, 1929
“Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.”
“Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.”
“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.”
“Prosperity is often the enemy of spiritual development.”
“Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.”
“Prosperity is the ability to do what you want to do at
the instant you want to do it.”
Source: The Power of Decision: A Step-By-Step Program to Overcome Indecision and Live Without Failure Forever
“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.”
“Prosperity is the fruit of labor. It begins with saving money.”
“Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.”
“Prosperity isn't defined by money alone; it encompasses time, love, success, joy, comfort, beauty, and wisdom.”
“Prosperity knits a man to the world.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters
“Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it while really it is finding its place in him. His increasing reputation, his widening circle of acquaintances, his sense of importance, the growing pressure of absorbing and agreeable work build up in him a sense of being really at home on earth which is just what we want.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters
“Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters
“Prosperity lasts long for one who acts after proper consideration.”
“Prosperity lets goe the bridle.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Prosperity makes few friends.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies”
“Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.”
“Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.”
“Prosperity of all people lies in praying for the prosperous of their souls,”
“Prosperity of the middling and lower orders depends upon the fortunes and light taxes of the rich.”
“Prosperity of wicked men runs like a torrent past, and soon is spent.”
Source: Swann’s Way
“Prosperity often presages adversity.”
“Prosperity only comes as a result of production”
“Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.”
“Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.”
Source: Elizabeth I: Collected Works
“Prosperity puts a smile on your face.
Accomplishment puts a smile on your heart.
Health puts a smile on your soul.
Amusement puts a smile on your face.
Pleasure puts a smile on your heart.
Fulfilment puts a smile on your soul.
Laughter puts a smile on your face.
Joy puts a smile on your heart.
Love puts a smile on your soul.
Happiness puts a smile on your face.
Peace puts a smile on your heart.
Freedom puts a smile on your soul.
Fathers put a smile on your face.
Mothers put a smile on your heart.
Children put a smile on your soul.
Friends put a smile on your face.
Family puts a smile on your heart.
God puts a smile on your soul.”
“Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.”
“Prosperity should be our goal, not austerity.”
“Prosperity starts in ones heart not their pocket.”
“Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.”
Source: Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…
“Prosperity this Winter is going to be enjoyed by everybody that is fortunate enough to get into the poor farm.”
Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929
“Prosperity too often has the same effect on a Christian that a calm at sea has on a Dutch mariner; who frequently, it is said, in those circumstances, ties up the rudder, gets drunk, and goes to sleep.”
“Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.”
“Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.”
Source: Sallust
“Prosperity Whose sources are interior. As soon Adversity A diamond overtake.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Prosperity without freedom is just another form of poverty.”
“Prosperity's disciples build careful bastions against age and change.”
“Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.”
“Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters.”