Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous…

Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

— Boethius

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

— Charles Horton Cooley

. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat…

— John Milton

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

— Horace

In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

— Horace

At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.

— Horace

“An idealist is someone who helps other people to be prosperous”

— Ford Henry Ford

The shocking truth about prosperity is that it is shockingly right instead of shockingly wrong for you to be prosperous. Please note that the…

— Catherine Ponder

Expensive, well-executed, and familiar ads convince the investors, as nothing in the black and white tables of assets and debits can, that the company…

— Michael Schudson

I preach that anybody can improve their lives. I think God wants us to be prosperous. I think he wants us to be happy.…

— Joel Osteen

Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they…

— Natan Sharansky

By hook or by crook, we're going to make sure that when I leave this office, that the country is more prosperous, more people…

— Barack Obama

If I were to offer advice to any president of the United States, it would be this: do whatever you can do to keep…

— Mitt Romney

Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders insipid, nor…

— François-René de Chateaubriand

Jesus was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the wealthiest institution…

— Avro Manhattan