Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
William Hazlitt

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

Prosperity is full of friends.
Euripides

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
Woodrow Wilson

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

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon

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

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
Mark Twain

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Francis Bacon

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

Prosperity makes few friends.
Luc de Clapier

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus

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

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
Rose Kennedy

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Joseph Addison

Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.
Walter Ulbricht

Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.
Blanche Lincoln

That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation.
Charles E. Wilson