(493 quotes found)
“If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.”
W. C. Fields
“The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.”
Seneca
“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.”
Anne Bradstreet
“Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.”
Plutarch
“In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty”
English Proverb
“A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him who makes it”
William Shakespeare
“Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“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
“The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.”
C.S. Lewis
“The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
Theodore Roosevelt
