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Quotes about Prosperity

By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.
— Confucius
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
— Cicero
As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
— George Eliot
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
— Edmund Burke
I am debt-free in Jesus' name. I attract God-inspired ideas that produce great wealth. Opportunities and resources are headed my way now, in Jesus' name." Release the power of God into your pocket book.
— Terri Savelle Foy
To waste and destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihoodthe virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
— Theodore Roosevelt
But we must keep steadily in mind that no people were ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Love willeth to be raised up, and not to be held down by any mean thing. Love willeth to be free and aloof from all worldly affection, lest its inward power of vision be hindered, lest it be entangled by any worldly prosperity or overcome by adversity. Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger, nothing loftier, nothing broader, nothing pleasanter, nothing fuller or better in heaven nor on earth, for love was born of God and cannot rest save in God above all created things.
— Thomas a Kempis
And without doubt it is better for thee and for all My other servants, that ye should be proved by adversities, than that ye should have all things as ye would. I know thy hidden thoughts: and that it is very needful for thy soul's health that sometimes thou be left without relish, lest perchance thou be lifted up by prosperity, and desirous to please thyself in that which thou art not.
— Thomas a Kempis
My Son, thou art not yet strong and prudent in thy love." 2. Wherefore, O my Lord? 3. "Because for a little opposition thou fallest away from thy undertakings, and too eagerly seekest after consolation. The strong lover standeth fast in temptations, and believeth not the evil persuasions of the enemy. As in prosperity I please him, so in adversity I do not displease.
— Thomas a Kempis