#pros

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#die #hands #hearts #nations #poets

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#only #others #prosperity #seen #some

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy. ↗

— Aeschylus

#dare #end #happy #him #life

But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#come #court #four #get #hitting

People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success. ↗

— Jerry Gillies

#believe #even #eventually #every #lesson

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#abject #billions #countries #developing #hope

It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#crime #especially #extinguish #happens #help

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#blessing #new #old #old testament #prosperity

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#desires #follow #greed #lust #preserved

Prosperity cannot be experienced by living detached from Nature. Everything else is only a gradation of materialistic, earthly ambitions. We came from the stars and there lies the path to our substantive evolution. ↗

— Grigoris Deoudis

#detached #evolution #living #materialistic #nature