Prosperity Quotes - page 4

We have had good and bad Presidents, and it is a consoling reflection that the American Nation possesses such elements of prosperity that the bad Presidents cannot destroy it, and have been able to do no more than slightly to retard the public's advancement. (Henry Clay)
Manufacturing is the most important...route to prosperity. View quote
Ha-Joon Chang
Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity. View quote
Periander
Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failure of our neighbors but their successes. View quote
John Buchan
Generally speaking, an Indian university must regard itself as one of the living organs of national reconstruction. It must discover the best means of blending together both the spiritual and the material aspects of life. It must equip its alumni irrespective of caste, creed or sex, with individual fitness, not for its own sake, not for merely adorning varied occupations and professions, but in order to teach them how to merge their individuality in the common cause of advancing the progress and prosperity of their motherland and upholding the highest traditions of human civilisation. View quote
Syama Prasad Mookerjee
Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man. View quote
Theognis of Megara
No country can long endure if its foundations are not laid deep in the material prosperity. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to everyone. View quote
Boris Yeltsin
To strive for the common prosperity and happiness of all nations as well as the security and well-being of Our subjects is the solemn obligation which has been handed down by Our Imperial Ancestors and which lies close to Our heart. View quote
Hirohito
The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity. View quote
Mitch Daniels
No country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers. (Herbert Hoover)
While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States - that is, prosperity. View quote
Herbert Hoover
The foundations of our Empire are now based more firmly than ever! The birth of a Crown Prince shows that the prosperity of the Imperial Household is increasing many times. View quote
Sadao Araki
Moreover, a true Christian will not ascribe any prosperity to his own diligence, industry, or good fortune, but he will acknowledge that God is the author of it. View quote
John Calvin
I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity. View quote
Benny Hinn
Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother. View quote
Cotton Mather
There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science. View quote
Ali
Prosperity may be found in small as in big business. View quote
Isaac Leib Peretz
Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity. View quote
John Mearsheimer
The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and contribute to the permanent prosperity and strength of the country far more than the most splendid victories of successful war. View quote
Charles Babbage
The growth of entrepreneurial classes throughout the world is an asset in the promotion of human rights and individual liberty, and it should be understood and used as such. Yet peace is the first and most important condition for continued prosperity and freedom. America's military power must be secure because the United States is the only guarantor of global peace and stability. The current neglect of America's armed forces threatens its ability to maintain peace. (Condoleezza Rice)
I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief. View quote
Euripides
This whole theory [of John Law and Jean Terrasson], as dear to French financial schemers in the eighteenth century as to American "Greenbackers" in the nineteenth, had resulted, under the Orleans Regency and Louis XV, in ruin to France financially and morally, had culminated in the utter destruction of all prosperity, the rooting out of great numbers of the most important industries, and the grinding down of the working people even to starvation. View quote
Andrew Dickson White
Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue. View quote
George Mason
[Conservatism:] Our revolutionary message ... is that a self-disciplined people can create a political community in which an ordered liberty will promote both economic prosperity and political participation. View quote
Irving Kristol