Prosperity Effects Quotes

There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity.

Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity.

As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom.

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.

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.

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

Money is all right but once you have it you learn it's not the be all and end all.

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.