Fortune quotes
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.
-- Aeschylus -
Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.
-- Alec Wilkinson -
We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.
-- Amish Tripathi -
A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.
-- Anna Held -
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No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect
-- Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulieres -
Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.
-- Appius Claudius Caecus -
Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
-- Aristotle -
Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.
-- Aristotle -
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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
-- Arthur Helps -
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.
-- Aulus Gellius -
By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
-- Barry Gibb -
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Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.
-- Belle Boyd -
Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
-- Ben Harper -
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
-- Ben Jonson -
Behind every great fortune, there lies a great crime
-- Ben Mezrich -
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We make our own fortune and call it destiny.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
-- Bodhidharma -
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
-- Boethius -
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One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
-- Boethius -
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
-- Boethius -
For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
-- Boethius -
Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe."
-- Brian Tracy -
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One good idea is all you need to start a fortune.
-- Brian Tracy -
Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.
-- C. S. Lewis -
I started acting when I was 13, so acting has been, with great fortune, my job since I could get a job.
-- Carla Gugino -
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.]
-- Carlo Goldoni -
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Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
-- Carlo Goldoni -
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
-- Charles Caleb Colton -
We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
-- Charles Kuralt -
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Giving away a fortune is taking Christianity too far.
-- Charlotte Bingham -
One way or another, if you’re persistent, fortune always smiles on you.
-- Charlton Heston -
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.
-- Claire Bloom -
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Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.
-- Claire Tomalin -
Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts.
-- Clara Shih -
Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.
-- Cleobulus -
I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.
-- Daniel Boone -
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I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.
-- David Attenborough -
I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.
-- Deanna Raybourn -
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
-- Decimius Magnus Ausonius -
Bear good fortune modestly.
-- Decimius Magnus Ausonius -
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I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children.
-- Demi Moore -
Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
-- Demosthenes -
Fortune favors the audacious.
-- Desiderius Erasmus -
Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.
-- Dick Gephardt -
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I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.
-- Dikembe Mutombo -
Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.
-- Ed Seykota -
A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.
-- Eden Phillpotts -
I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
-- Edie Falco -
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All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.
-- Edouard Rene de Laboulaye -
Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.
-- Elvis Costello -
My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.
-- Elyn Saks -
Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.
-- Eric Butterworth -
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I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do.
-- Evelyn Ashford -
I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.
-- F. L. Lucas -
When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.
-- Fernando de Rojas -
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.
-- Francois Hollande -
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A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune.
-- Francois-Andre Danican Philidor -
There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.
-- Frank Laubach -
I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.
-- George Eliot -
No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.
-- George Farquhar -
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If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune, we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.
-- George Matthew Adams -
How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!
-- Henry Clay -
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Fortune comes well to all that comes not late.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
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The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.
-- Homer -
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.
-- Horace -
Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it? [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]
-- Horace -
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Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]
-- Horace -
Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treach'rous shore.
-- Horace -
Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.
-- Horace -
When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
-- Idries Shah -
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To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.
-- Ihara Saikaku -
You fellows ever thought of hiring out as a Christmas lights crew? You’d make a fortune.
-- Ilona Andrews -
Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
-- Irving Stone -
...you shouldn't hate something you don't know, because it may turn out to be the bearer of your greatest good fortune.
-- Izzeldin Abuelaish -
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A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.
-- Jackie Kennedy -
I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.
-- James Caan -
Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.
-- James Kahn -
Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.
-- Janette Rallison -
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People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.
-- Jasmine Guinness -
Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.
-- Jason Calacanis -
Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.
-- Jean de la Bruyere -
Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness. [Fr., Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse.]
-- Jean de La Fontaine -
