(494 quotes found)
“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
“Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may...meet with great misfortunes.”
Aristotle
“Wealth must serve more than the wealthy, Prosperity must serve more than the prosperous..”
Gordon Brown
“A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill, and fortitude of the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.”
Anonymous
“He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter.”
Henry Fielding
“Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God’s favor. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.”
Francis Bacon
“grow and prosper and strengthen.”
London School
“Joy is for those whose heart desires nothing but Peace and Prosperity.”
Leah Dancel
“It's easy to be humble when your life's prosper. Nothing could be denigrated when life's so poor.”
Toba Beta
