Definition of Prosper

Prosper

To favor; to render successful.

To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain.

To grow; to increase.

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Prosper Quotations

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.
Joel Osteen

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose Bierce

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.
Earl Nightingale

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.
Rush Limbaugh

But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.
Jim Valvano

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
Thomas Fuller

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
Herodotus

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
Edvard Munch

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.
Sarah Bernhardt

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
John Harrington

To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.
Edwin Louis Cole

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
Anthony Trollope

True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation.
Sun Myung Moon

And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper.
Sanford I. Weill

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.
Paul Hawken

We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds.
Paul Ryan

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

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.
Alexander Haig

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.
Hesiod

If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.
Adam Clarke

I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper.
Jack Kilby

And as a Member of this body, I believe firmly that States do have rights, and I believe that local communities have rights, and they have made decisions to allow these businesses to prosper as they are a big part of their economy.
Jon Porter

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.
Charles Edison

But among them now were a large number of Communists in positions of great power within the new union movement, some of them actually moving close to the center of power. This was the crack in the wall through which they entered. Their power was to grow and prosper.
John T. Flynn

We must give Oklahoma families the opportunity to thrive and prosper. We must give all Oklahomans the tools necessary to pursue the American dream. And then, we must get out of the way.
Brad Henry

Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.
John Harington

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.
Jim Costa

I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity.
Roy Barnes

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Prosper Translations

prosper in Afrikaans is floreer
prosper in Dutch is gedijen, tieren, bloeien, floreren
prosper in German is gedeihen, florieren
prosper in Spanish is abrirse
prosper in Swedish is blomstra, trivas

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