Quotes on prosperity
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.
Gregg, Alan
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.
Irving, Washington
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.
Wilkinson, Richard
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Bacon, Francis
Men can bear all things except good days.
Proverb, Dutch
Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, "Let no more riches enter!"
Aeschylus
We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.
Priestley, J.B.
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
Confucius
It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
Johnson, Samuel
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
Kennedy, Mark
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
Sweeney, Paul
If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.
Askue, Russell P.
Pearls around the neck - stones upon the heart.
Ayalti, Hanan J.
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
George, Henry
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
Wiener, Norbert
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.
Mumford, Lewis
We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.
Powell, Adam Clayton
Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.
Wagner, Charles
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
Aristophanes
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.
Clinton, Bill
By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation.
Dodd, Christopher
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the
handle.
Churchill, Winston