Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

— Bacon, Francis

Ten ancient commandments lousing up the fun. Along came prosperity, and then there was none.

— Barzan, Gerald

In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.

— Burgh, James

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 a lack of money or things.

— Butterworth, Eric

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

— Confucius

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

— Coolidge, Calvin

Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.

— Dyer, Wayne

Americans have mastered the art of being prosperous though broke.

— Franklin, Billy Boy

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

— Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.

— Hubbard, Kin

The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself.

— Lucan, F. L.

Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest.

— Pilzer, Paul Zane

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

— Plutarch

If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.

— Ponder, Catherine

If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.

— Proverb, Chinese

A full cup must be carried steadily.

— Proverb, English

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

— Reston, James

All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.

— Ross, Ruth

Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

— Sophocles

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

— Syrus, Publilius

When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

— Twain, Mark

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

— Twain, Mark

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

— Walpole, Horace