If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind. ~By W. C. Fields ~
The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime. ~By Karl Rove ~
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. ~By Calvin Coolidge ~
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. ~By Alan Gregg ~
By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation. ~By Christopher Dodd ~
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. ~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%. ~By Sidney Blumenthal ~
I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity. ~By Kin Hubbard ~
The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations. ~By Paul Getty ~
U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy. ~By Cliff Stearns ~
We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage. ~By Abdul Kalam ~
The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time. ~By Rick Perry ~
The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament. ~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
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. ~By Ulysses S. Grant ~
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst. ~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity. ~By Plutarch ~
Invariably, also a Palestinian state should live side by side with Israel within recognized and secure borders and the security and prosperity of the Palestinian people must be guaranteed. ~By Recep Tayyip Erdogan ~
Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush. ~By Ann Coulter ~
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. ~By Joseph Addison ~
To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity. ~By Herbert Croly ~
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. ~By George Washington ~
From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large. ~By Kenzaburo Oe ~
With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity. ~By Nick Lampson ~
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity. ~By Simon Newcomb ~
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. ~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia. ~By Godfried Danneels ~
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. ~By Ernst Fischer ~
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. ~By Plutarch ~
All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind. ~By Eisaku Sato ~
The American people want economic prosperity, high-quality goods and low prices, all of which I support. ~By John Linder ~
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. ~By Horace ~
The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity. ~By Barbara Boxer ~
Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve. ~By Hernando Cortes ~
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country. ~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury. ~By Herbert Hoover ~
Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity? ~By Paul Ryan ~
It is very important for people to understand that the United States of America and no country around the world can devalue its way to prosperity, to be competitive. It is not a viable, feasible strategy, and we will not engage in it. ~By Timothy Geithner ~
I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity. ~By Roy Barnes ~
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. ~By William Hazlitt ~
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ~By Aristotle ~
The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it. ~By Sellapan Ramanathan ~
No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger. ~By Heraclitus ~
Well, the important message that we've always carried to China is that we look forward to your progress and prosperity, we look forward to you playing a role in the progress and prosperity of this region and we look forward to stability in your relations with others. ~By Sellapan Ramanathan ~
I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity. ~By Boris Trajkovski ~
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity. ~By Rosalind Russell ~
You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift. ~By Paul Getty ~
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. ~By Joel Osteen ~
As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency. ~By Caroline Kennedy ~
We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that south Asia will enjoy peace, stability and prosperity. ~By Li Peng ~
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. ~By Blaise Pascal ~
No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. ~By Rush Limbaugh ~
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come. ~By Lee Iacocca ~
Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it. ~By John Shadegg ~
Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn. ~By Earl Nightingale ~
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. ~By Edmund Burke ~
For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream. ~By Todd Tiahrt ~
I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines. ~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies. ~By Jim Costa ~
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. ~By Tacitus ~
Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked. ~By Jon Huntsman, Jr. ~
The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army. ~By Thomas Francis Meagher ~
The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations. ~By Omar Bongo ~
Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours. ~By Robert Toombs ~
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. ~By Epictetus ~
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. ~By C. S. Lewis ~
Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in. ~By James Reston ~
We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all. ~By Claudio Hummes ~
Much effort, much prosperity. ~By Euripides ~
Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity. ~By Paul Ryan ~
Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland. ~By Walter Ulbricht ~
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. ~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure that growth to be sustained has to be shared, and are built on the principle that the prosperity of this world is indivisible. ~By Gordon Brown ~
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. ~By Ludwig von Mises ~
Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution. ~By Lawrence Lessig ~
There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. ~By Washington Irving ~
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity. ~By Sa'Di ~
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God. ~By Dwight L. Moody ~
Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity. ~By Cathy McMorris ~
That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation. ~By Charles E. Wilson ~
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. ~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
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! ~By Mary Douglas ~
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. ~By Don Marquis ~
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn. ~By Elijah Cummings ~
Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy. ~By Aeschylus ~
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own. ~By Cesar Chavez ~
Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago? ~By Horst Koehler ~
But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world. ~By John Thorn ~
May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity; may it be a year of peace and unity for all mankind; may the world be freed of cholera. ~By Giacomo Meyerbeer ~
The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity. ~By Arthur Henderson ~
Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions. ~By Herbert Croly ~
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity. ~By Michael Porter ~
The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations. ~By Arthur Henderson ~
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. ~By Rose Kennedy ~
The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie. ~By L. Neil Smith ~
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. ~By Francis Bacon ~
A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now. ~By Scott Cook ~
Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides. ~By David Hare ~
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. ~By Tryon Edwards ~
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things. ~By Eric Butterworth ~
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. ~By Elvis Presley ~
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