A rich state formed by poor people is absurd! The state cannot build its prosperity on the poverty and poverty of its citizens.
“Without labor nothing prospers.” — Sophocles
“Without labor nothing prospers.”
— Sophocles
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
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
—Henry Ford
Prosperity may cause us to rise in the world, but affliction is needful to raise us above the world.
—John Newton
When rich speculators prosper While farmers lose their land; when government officials spend money on weapons instead of cures;
—Laozi
The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
—Blaise Pascal
“It is all well with Christ’s cause because it is in his own hands. He shall not fail nor be discouraged. The pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hands.”
No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity
—Seneca
Apply yourself both now and in the next life.
Without effort, you cannot be prosperous.
Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
—Plato
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
—Aristotle
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
—Mark Twain
These men would barter comfort for greatness. In their vain reveries they forget that a nation consists of individuals, and that true national prosperity is no other than the multiplication of particular happiness.
—William Wilberforce
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
They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
—Nikolai Gogol
God when he will bring life, brings it out of death, he brings joy out of sorrow, and he brings prosperity out of adversity.
—Jeremiah Burroughs