Fortune Quotes
1539 Fortune quotes by 990 unique authors
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Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and…
— Plato
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It's hard to tell our bad luck from our good luck sometimes. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something when…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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That each day that you love, honor, and respect your own unique point of view, you're a step closer to finding a fortune.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark…
— Plato
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Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.
— Gautama Buddha
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How do you make a small fortune in the wine business? Start with a large fortune and buy a winery.
— Kevin Zraly
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Jewish history has been tragic to the Jews and no less tragic to the neighboring nations who have suffered them. Our major vice of old…
— Samuel Roth
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
— Sophocles
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When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
— Publilius Syrus
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad…
— Herodotus
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Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use—that is our good use—of other things,…
— Socrates
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You had my heart, and I yours; a heart for a heart, good fortune for good fortune.
— Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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If you are demanding registration before checkout, you need to cease this practice immediately. It is costing you a fortune.
— Bruce Tognazzini
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No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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To say grace, knowing that people on this globe are starving, indicates a highly selfish acquiescence in the arrogantly supposed favoritism of the almighty. A…
— Barbara Smoker
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If fortune torments me, hope contents me.
— William Shakespeare
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Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.
— Julius Caesar
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
— Alexander Pope
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But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation,…
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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