Prosperity Quotes

Most popular prosperity quotes

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity. - Aristotle quote.
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshiped. - Calvin Coolidge quote.
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshiped.
In the day of prosperity, adversity is forgotten and in the day of adversity, prosperity is not remembered.
— Apocrypha—Ecclesiasticus 11:25

biblical adversity

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

adversity

Those who prosper take on airs of vanity. - Aeschylus quote.
Those who prosper take on airs of vanity.

vanity

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. - G. K. Chesterton quote.
If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

virtue

Prosperity has damned more Souls than all the Devils together. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Prosperity has damned more Souls than all the Devils together.

proverbs

The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. - Francis Bacon quote.
The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

adversity

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. - Thomas Carlyle quote.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

adversity

Prosperity comes with three terminal diseases: debt, obesity, and (standardized) tourism.
If you need others to know that you are doing well, you're not doing well.