Top 1200 Prosperous Country Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

I'm a country girl. I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad was a country singer-songwriter, so it's in my blood and I love it.

Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.

Rwanda has emerged from the devastation of genocide and become more secure and prosperous than anyone had a right to expect.

Sometimes, you just let the country have its way, and you don't try to determine the shape of the country. You sort of modestly step back and let the country figure out what it believes.

Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

It has taken centuries to create the freest, fairest, most prosperous societies in the world, and there have been lots of studies about this.

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

Erasing national borders does not make people safer or more prosperous. It undermines democracy and trades away prosperity.

We're prosperous enough that we can afford to have one in six able-bodied men of working age sitting at home playing video games.

In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of the country, who did their work for them.

A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.

For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so that we continue to be the leader in innovation and entrepreneurship.

Because I have experienced a prosperous, healthy and happy existence, I must have been a decent person in a past life.

I'm not an environmentalist. I'm a cultural repairman. It's all about efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, prosperous and life-sustaining.

If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

I am deeply grateful to the President and to my country. ... To come from Cincinnati, Ohio, for God's sake, then to go to Hollywood, and to get this kind of tribute from my country. ... I love this country so much.

I campaigned for Brexit because I have always believed that Britain would be stronger, more prosperous and secure outside of the E.U.

Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream.

The recent wave of Taliban attacks has made clear that the international community must not waiver in its support for a stable, secure and prosperous Afghanistan.

Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.

A country of victims is also a country of heroes, risking their lives so others will live. This is the Philippines, the country we love.

The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.

This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this country should be. A place where people are appreciated for who they are.

In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.

As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.

Look around you and you see plenty of prosperous businessmen splurging money like there was no tomorrow but paying no taxes.

I covered the Lebanese civil war. I could see a place that had once been prosperous and now was impoverished. I'm not seeing that in America.

Long, long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.

In a world of serious threats, Britain stands tall, saving lives and building a more prosperous, stable future for all.

There's a lot going on in country music, with indie-label hipsters and underground bloggers arguing their interpretations of what country is, and pop-country stars defending themselves. That deserves to be poked fun at.

Lord, make my way prosperous, not that I achieve high station, but that my life may be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.

Country music has changed tremendously, so what now is considered country was not considered country at that time. We were doing stuff that probably could have been called country music today, but would certainly have not have fit in at that time.

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good for their health, but life in the country is not original at all, for anyone who wasn't born in and for the country it shows a lack of taste and is only harmful to their health. The people who go walking in the country walk right into their own funeral in the country and at the very least they lead a grotesque existence which leads them first into idiocy, then into an absurd death.

Let our object be - our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument - not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of Peace, and of Liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever.

I started out young and idealistic, and it was all about social justice and fair distribution of resources. I didn't understand why everybody couldn't be equally prosperous.

The music that I play is much more accepted in America. Do you know what I mean? Americans recognize and not necessarily country music. I go to a lot of places in Canada and they go "I don't like country music" and they think I'm a country musician. When I am a country musician but not a country musician like they think of.

I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.

For me there are two types of country: There's the shoot-yourself-in-the-head country, and then there's really good country music.

So many of the things we are doing right now as a country are things that lead to loss of a country. I leave you with this thought and challenge any historian, no mater who you are where you are. You show me a country that ever met its demise while as a nation it was honoring the one true God. You won't find it. Let's keep this country alive.

Let us take advantage of the opportunities presented by climate action and lay the foundations for a more prosperous and secure future for all

A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident as to perpetuate their happiness.

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.

What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.

Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.

The American people know we can be stronger, we can be more prosperous but we have got to have new leadership and that happens to be Donald Trump when he becomes president.

I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.

China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there.

There are many Universal laws some of which need to be a centre of our attention if we wish living the life of a prosperous creator.

What is very negative is that in every country in Europe, the largest owner of that country's sovereign bonds are that country's banks.

If we can provide even a fictional roadmap to what a successful, prosperous African nation might look like, then let's do that.

As I have said before, our society cannot be truly prosperous until it respects the rights of the most vulnerable among us.

When I won the World Championship in '72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.