These prosperity quotes will inspire you. Prosperity, the state of being successful usually by making a lot of money or the state of being prosperous.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging prosperity quotes, prosperity sayings, and prosperity proverbs.
Best Prosperity Quotes
- “Government ‘help’ to business is just as disastrous as government persecution… the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.” ~ Ayn Rand
- “Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.” ~ Rose Kennedy
- “Much effort, much prosperity.” ~ Euripides
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“Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things.” ~ Eric Butterworth
- “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.” ~ Wayne Dyer , Prosperity quotes about life
- “In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.” ~ John Churton Collins
- “In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.” ~ Friedrich Schiller
- “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
- “If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” ~ Anne Bradstreet
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“Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.” ~ Billy Graham
- “There is only one way by which you can achieve prosperity. It is to take charge of your mind.” ~ Eric Butterworth
- “Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.” ~ Plutarch
- “When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.” ~ Wayne Dyer
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“The trick is to make sure you don’t die waiting for prosperity to come.” ~ Lee Iacocca
- “I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.” ~ Isabel Allende
- “The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.” ~ Ulysses S. Grant
- “The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest.” ~ Paul Zane Pilzer
- “A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.” ~ Saadi
- “Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.” ~ Kofi Annan
- “A millionaire is a person who is free, who does what she loves, who has unlimited materials, her choice of tools, abundance, inspiration, freedom and an inflated sense of entitlement to have, create and get more.” ~ Sara Genn
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“Youth is the trustee of prosperity.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.” ~ Confucius
- “You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending” ~ William J. H. Boetcker
- “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.” ~ George Washington
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“In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.” ~ Solomon
- “It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.” ~ Joel Osteen
- “Prosperity’s the very bond of love.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “Prosperity is the best protector of principle.” ~ Mark Twain
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“Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.” ~ Luc de Clapiers
- “You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.” ~ Earl Nightingale
- “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.” ~ Eric Butterworth
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“He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
- “The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.” ~ Epicurus
- “Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find his highest enjoyment to arise from the continued practice of doing all in his power to promote the well-being, and happiness, of every man, woman, and child, without regard to their class, sect, party, country or colour” ~ Robert Owen
- “A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.” ~ James Allen
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“Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.” ~ Calvin Coolidge
- “Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!” ~ Mary Douglas
- “The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.” ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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“Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.” ~ Woodrow Wilson
- “Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.” ~ Thomas Sowell
- “We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- “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.” ~ Louisa May Alcott
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“No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.” ~ Heraclitus
- “Prosperity or egalitarianism — you have to choose. I favor freedom — you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.” ~ Mario Vargas Llosa
- “To rejoice in another’s prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another’s grief is to alleviate or dispel your own” ~ Tryon Edwards
- “Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Few of us stand prosperity; another man’s I mean.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.” ~ Luc de Clapiers
- “It’s all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.” ~ George Eliot
- “You are asked to keep a ledger – a small notebook will do – of money in and money out. Counting brings clarity, and clarity is one of the first and finest fruits of prosperity.” ~ Julia Cameron
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“The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.” ~ Martin Van Buren
- “Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.” ~ Plutarch
- “Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.” ~ Herbert Hoover
- “Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.” ~ Aldous Huxley
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“Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.” ~ Aristotle
- “We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.” ~ Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
- “I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.” ~ E. F. Schumacher
- “As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.” ~ Jean de la Bruyere