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title: "2 Things Poverty Quotes By Eric Butterworth"
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> [Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-butterworth/prosperity-is-not-just-having-things-it-is-the-consciousness-that/)

[Eric Butterworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-butterworth/)

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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-butterworth/prosperity-is-a-way-of-living-and-thinking-and-not-just-money-or-2/)

[Eric Butterworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-butterworth/)

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## More by Eric Butterworth

> [As the Quakers say, "When you pray, move your feet."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-butterworth/as-the-quakers-say-when-you-pray-move-your-feet/)

[Eric Butterworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-butterworth/)

> [The secret of achieving prosperity lies in so vividly keeping yourself centered in the inner focus of affluence that you literally exude the consciousness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-butterworth/the-secret-of-achieving-prosperity-lies-in-so-vividly-keeping/)

[Eric Butterworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-butterworth/)

> [Religious teachings and teachers have conditioned us to think of faith as a magic catalyst that makes God work for us. In no way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-butterworth/religious-teachings-and-teachers-have-conditioned-us-to-think-of/)

[Eric Butterworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-butterworth/)

> [Affluence = abundant flow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-butterworth/affluence-abundant-flow/)

[Eric Butterworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-butterworth/)

> [Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-butterworth/most-people-show-up-for-work-being-physically-accoutered-but-mentally/)

[Eric Butterworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-butterworth/)

> [I tell you and you forget. I show you and you remember. I involve you and you understand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-butterworth/i-tell-you-and-you-forget-i-show-you-and-you-remember-i-involve-you/)

[Eric Butterworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-butterworth/)

> [The thing I fear comes upon me](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-butterworth/the-thing-i-fear-comes-upon-me/)

[Eric Butterworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-butterworth/)

> [Under the sustaining influence of love, the physical body is always at its best. It is probably true that more people are sick from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-butterworth/under-the-sustaining-influence-of-love-the-physical-body-is-always-at/)

[Eric Butterworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-butterworth/)

> [There is only one way in which you can "change your luck" and that is by altering your thoughts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-butterworth/there-is-only-one-way-in-which-you-can-change-your-luck-and-that-is/)

[Eric Butterworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-butterworth/)

> [The ideal is not believing in, but believing from.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-butterworth/the-ideal-is-not-believing-in-but-believing-from/)

[Eric Butterworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-butterworth/)

> [The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-butterworth/the-great-piano-virtuoso-paderewski-was-once-playing-before-an/)

[Eric Butterworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-butterworth/)

> [Missing the mark is one of the ways in which we learn to hit the target.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-butterworth/missing-the-mark-is-one-of-the-ways-in-which-we-learn-to-hit-the/)

[Eric Butterworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-butterworth/)

> [While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-butterworth/while-many-people-are-trying-to-be-in-tune-with-infinite-what-they/)

[Eric Butterworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-butterworth/)

> [Your most important asset is the conscious control of your own life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-butterworth/your-most-important-asset-is-the-conscious-control-of-your-own-life/)

[Eric Butterworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-butterworth/)

> [We have been taught to keep the commandments, and we have kept them all too well. We have enshrined them like religious relics in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-butterworth/we-have-been-taught-to-keep-the-commandments-and-we-have-kept-them/)

[Eric Butterworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-butterworth/)

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