Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.

Aeschylus

Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.

Abert F. Geoffrey

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

Socrates

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear. Of him that hears it, never in the tongue. Of him that makes it.

William Shakespeare

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Calvin Coolidge

Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Sir Francis Bacon

Prosperity makes few friends.

Luc De Clapier De Vauvanargues

We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it.

Bill Clinton

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

German Proverb

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Publilius Syrus

Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Cicero

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

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

Administrative rules that meet the objective of the agency, while not being overly burdensome to small business, are key to the economic growth and prosperity of Wisconsin's economy.

Mary Burke

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.

Wilkie Collins

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.

Alan Gregg

Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great.

Rose F. Kennedy

Remember God in prosperity, and He will remember you in adversity.

Abu Muhammad

The prosperity of a country is in accordance with its treatment of the aged.

Hasidic Proverb

He's clearly made economic prosperity the hallmark of his administration.

Allan Zaremberg

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

William Hazlitt

World language courses are developing students in a capacity in European and Asian languages and this gives them a deeper understanding of not only language, but culture. It brings prosperity and peace to this world.

Gaston Caperton

If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.

Catherine Ponder

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Rosalind Russell

To paraphrase Greenspan, (Intel is) a beacon of light. We think Intel is in an oasis of prosperity in this world of distress.

Ashok Kumar

These loans will help finance economic revitalization in areas that have experienced trade-related job losses attributable to NAFTA. NAFTA has been a net plus for the nation's economy, and the Clinton/Gore Administration's free trade policies have been a big contributor to our nation's economic prosperity.

Aida Alvarez

It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies.

Hugh Macdiarmid

Do you want to trust and like the president--is that more important--or do you believe you have to vote for Gore to keep the peace and prosperity we've had the last eight years?

Terry Madonna

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

James Reston

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

Rush Limbaugh

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one is adversity.

Plutarch

There is in every true 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.

Washington Irving

Our job is to break down those barriers -- whether they are tariff or non-tariff barriers -- because it is essential to our continued economic growth and prosperity.

Jim Mendenhall

The president's New Year's resolution is to continue to work tirelessly for peace abroad and prosperity at home.

Trent Duffy

[Kerry won a key newspaper endorsement yesterday in Missouri, just two days after the St. Louis debate.] Based on his record, President George W. Bush has not earned re-election, ... He has mishandled the war on terrorism, shut his eyes to disagreeable facts, left the next generation in hock and presided over a sharp loss in jobs, health insurance and prosperity for millions of Americans.

Louis Post

Where hard-working people keep more of their own money, where we encourage enterprise and prosperity.

Ann Widdecombe

Productivity growth is the only possible way to achieve prosperity, to create a solid, sustainable foundation for wage increases and to ensure the country's development, for ourselves and for future generations.

Mario Draghi

His plan is going to needlessly risk the economic prosperity and jeopardize the future of Social Security and Medicare.

Jenny Backus

Never has the Chinese government put the environment issue in such an important position. It is vital to stability and prosperity of our country and people.

Xie Zhenhua

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.

Giacomo Meyerbeer

This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.

Ralph Waldo Trine

Maybe I'm alone in this view. But I'd think that Gore, if he were to lose, might have a hard time capturing the nomination because he failed to win at a time of great prosperity and having a president with a 55% approval rating despite 'Clinton fatigue' and all that. Many might argue that the problems were based on the candidate and not on the issues.

Andrew Kohut

Bush has to give a compelling reason to voters to make a change. In times of peace and prosperity, the incumbent party has all the trump cards.

Allan Lichtman

Oregon cannot tax itself into prosperity.

Jason Atkinson

No jovial hand shaker would get far without helping the local economy. Make no mistake, jobs and economic prosperity are the main issues here.

Juergen Falter

A rigid formula that does not allow local governments to benefit from the full value of their growth is both a practical and political barrier to continued economic prosperity.

Jerry Deschane

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

Gifford Pinchot

They're not the only carrier, but they certainly do have a huge influence on the prosperity of the metropolitan Detroit area.

Michael Conway

There are signs that the long-term drivers of prosperity are weakening. The loss of our competitive edge is a continuing corrosive process, which threatens our economic well-being in the long term.

Alan Duncan

By historical standards, that's a good rate, but we're used to 5 and 6 (percent growth) now, so it's going to feel bad. Perspective gets skewed by prosperity.

William Dunkelberg

What you're seeing is a sea change in advertising that is driving our economic prosperity, ... Offline (advertising) dollars are moving to online.

Jonathan Rosenberg

Due to the prosperity of our tourism industry recently, cultural organizations, which are also growing, are seeing a portion of that prosperity.

Rena Blades

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Cornelius Tacitus

It certainly fits in well with New Brunswick's Prosperity Plan, which emphasizes the development of strategic infrastructure to improve competitiveness, and facilitate the movement of people, goods, and services to national and international markets.

Bernard Lord

It doesn't address enough to the other side of the equation, which is reducing expenses. We here in Erie County cannot tax our way back to prosperity. We need to reduce our expenses. They need to reorganize County government.

Barry Weinstein

I remember the 1950s. It seemed as if prosperity was the be all and end all. The idea was that if you had enough material goods, everything would be all right.

William Hall

Ten ancient commandments lousing up the fun. Along came prosperity, and then there was none.

Gerald Barzan

The realization of the charter flight and travel as early as possible is the common desire of and in the interest of the compatriots from the two sides and will facilitate the common prosperity and development of Taiwan and the mainland.

Chen Yunlin

In the modern globalizing world, information sows the seeds of prosperity, and those who are without access to information are at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to building a better future for themselves and for their children.

Shashi Tharoor

NOTHING contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

David Ricardo

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

Rosa Parks

Huck and Jim are both going through similar things. They're both trying to figure out what it means to be a man in their own lives. They both want the same things: freedom, prosperity.

Rebecca Taylor

The administration has presided over a real good period of economic prosperity and has not made any wrong moves. What swing voters are looking for in political leadership is people who don't make mistakes.

Bill Carrick

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

Martin Van Buren

The government cannot create wealth, but it can create the environment ... for prosperity.

Heather Wilson

These are things that will continue to create lasting prosperity for Albertans even after the oil runs out.

Gary Mar

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity till he has tasted adversity.

Muslih uddin Sadi

Not only Afghan civilians and the Afghan people but the whole process that has started in Afghanistan, which is basically for peace and stability and prosperity.

Omar Samad

Labor has failed to do enough to present a courageous and coherent set of policies. We've got to outline our own vision for Australia, which I believe should include an independent foreign policy, bold social policy and economic policy that delivers prosperity for all.

Julia Gillard

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

In a link between a multi-ethnic concept and economic prosperity.

Susan Johnson

For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity.

Jennifer M. Granholm

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Henry Fielding

Our two companies will leverage growth opportunities for small businesses and entrepreneurs as engines for inclusive prosperity in their markets.

Mark Pinsky

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?

Horst Koehler

I do see a very serious threat in many of these developments and both the Commission and national governments need to do much, much more not to throw away the basis of the prosperity we have come to enjoy, which is open markets.

Paul Hofheinz

The mutual-beneficial cooperation between China and Brazil and their joint efforts in seeking common prosperity will not only benefit the interests of the two peoples but also have a profound impact on the development of Asia and the Latin America.

Li Changchun

It needs to hit some home runs. You can cost-cut your way to profitability in the near-term, but you can't cost-cut your way to prosperity over the long-term.

David Kudla

The Conservative Party agenda is now renegotiation on the route to withdrawal from Europe, by contrast with a Labour agenda for increased trade, prosperity and opportunity across the EU.

Douglas Alexander

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

Chilo

The time of confrontation and conflicts should be replaced with a time of construction and prosperity.

Alija Izetbegovic

Malthus would be astonished not only at the numbers of people, but at the real prosperity of about a fifth of them and the average prosperity of most of them. He wouldn't be surprised at the abject poverty of the lowest quarter or third.

Joel Cohen

Without new ways of managing growth, New Jersey stands no chance of reaching genuine prosperity.

George Hawkins

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

Lactantius

Given that the economy is doing pretty well, he really is not getting any credit for it. That's because we're at war. The public rewards peace, prosperity and (political) moderation. Right now he's got one of those things going for him.

John Geer

Prosperity or egalitarianism / you have to choose. I favor freedom / you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Just as railroads and interstate highways shaped development in the past, the migration of knowledge workers will shape prosperity in the future. Cities that disregard this basic fact do so at their peril.

Joseph Cortright

That is worth keeping in mind while you try to decide whether American credibility or Iraqi prosperity or Middle East stability can justify the cost in blood and treasure. And don't forget to factor in the likelihood that the war will actually produce these fine things.

Michael Kinsley

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

Lee Iacocca

A great education is the key to the state's future and prosperity. We're making good progress, but we're not there yet.

Mark Usdane

In an economy with record-breaking prosperity, it's past time to put poor people on the political agenda.

Jim Wallis

Here in Louisville, we are one of the bright spots of prosperity in an otherwise struggling industry.

Skip Miller

The economy is a huge issue. Peace and prosperity. That is why the president will offer -- even before the Congress comes back likely -- a growth package for investors and consumers and the market.

Mary Matalin

We promote prosperity of our community. We are honorable men doing honorable things to support our community.

Rodger Fowler

We do not control the trade of our resources, which are an important factor of prosperity for the dominant nations.

Omar Bongo

It's almost like Bush is running for reelection with peace and prosperity.

Marshall Wittmann

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Plutarch

Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.

George Voinovich

In an interdependent world our shared prosperity and collective security depend critically on success in the war against poverty.

Kemal Dervis

We have always placed the people's business ahead of all else. This is our duty as public servants, and the American people deserve no less, ... Our work here at the White House is of critical importance, and the president expects everyone to work hard to advance the optimistic agenda he has laid out to ensure peace and prosperity for future generations.

Andy Card

The people's patience is at its end. Our economy, the prosperity of our people, is in danger.

Guy Verhofstadt

The coming five years will be a golden opportunity for the central leadership to lead the Chinese people toward prosperity and will test its governance capacity as well.

Xia Xueluan

We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.

Charles Fillmore

We're concerned with the long-term economic prosperity of Rowan County: jobs, jobs, jobs.

Dyke Messinger

Without political stability there can be no economic prosperity in Indonesia, that's the bottom line.

Ray Jovanovich

I pledge to you the people, your government will not allow this desperate and irresponsible attempt to undermine the peace process and economic prosperity of the people to succeed.

Ranil Wickremesinghe

We should try to help lay the basic foundation for this part of Europe to move forward and enjoy some of the prosperity and stability that we are enjoying at the end of this century.

Roger Cohen

How we use these surpluses in this moment of prosperity will determine America's future for decades to come. Nothing will more surely determine it than making the right choices.

Chelsea Clinton

Significant educational investments will not only foster improvements in their health status, civic engagement and economic productivity, but also contribute to U.S. prosperity.

Marta Tienda

We also need stability and prosperity. And stability and prosperity is very very basic in Hong Kong.

Ma Lik

Strengthening of democratic institutions ... and the creation of jobs and prosperity.

Alberto Fujimori

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.

Eric Butterworth

Plant closings [and increased] labor productivity won't address the root cause of profitless prosperity. The root cause is increasing excess supply, which is causing price deflation.

Gary Lapidus

We had a great festival. We opened with a ritual to elevate our consciousness to understand how to create world peace. The ceremonies were to pray for peace, harmony, and prosperity for all by the blessings of the Divine Mother, especially for those in harm's way.

Pandit Ramadheen Ramsamooj

Facts have proved that prosperity at the expense of the environment is very superficial and very weak. It's only delaying disaster.

Zhou Shengxian

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Ernst Fischer