quotations about prosperity
A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.
JULIUS CHARLES HARE
Guesses at Truth
Beware the serpent, slyly hid, which stings
The soul with poison of Prosperity.
EDWARD ROBESON TAYLOR
"Adversity"
Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.
LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES
Reflections and Maxims
Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.
HOSEA BALLOU
Treasury of Thought
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
lecture in Cleveland, Ohio, February 4, 1932
All will allow that a change from prosperity to adversity is a trial; and a change from great prosperity to great adversity is a great trial. But a change from adversity to prosperity is as real a trial, as a change from prosperity to adversity; and a change from great adversity to great prosperity is a great trial. The reason why such changes are trials is, because they have a natural tendency to draw forth the affections of the heart, whether they are holy or unholy, friendly or unfriendly to God, who is concerned in every change that takes place. Prosperity is as great a trial of the heart as adversity. Mankind are as naturally disposed to abuse the smiles, as the frowns of divine providence.
NATHANAEL EMMONS
"Deceitfulness of the Heart"
There is, too, a very great difference in the purpose served both by those events which we call adverse and those called prosperous. For the good man is neither uplifted with the good things of time, nor broken by its ills; but the wicked man, because he is corrupted by this world's happiness, feels himself punished by its unhappiness.
ST. AUGUSTINE
The City of God
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
speech, June 11, 1928
Necessity teaches wisdom, while prosperity makes fools.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Great increase of prosperity sometimes weakens the supports of it.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Weak characters are warped by excessive prosperity.
WALTER MATTHEWS
"Prosperity", Human Life from Many Angles
Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.
MARY SHELLEY
Frankenstein
Prosperity gathers smiles, while adversity scatters them.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
As a crowded stomach retards digestion, so does prosperity retard charity.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts