Fortune Quotes

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The much-maligned idle rich have received a bad rap: They have maintained their wealth while many There is scarcely an instance of a man who… — Warren Buffett
What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies. — Publilius Syrus
For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy — Boethius
I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning. — Little Richard
There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned… — Winston Churchill
The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains;… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
The man who begins to speculate in stocks with the intention of making a fortune usually goes broke, whereas the man who trades with a… — Charles Dow
If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose,… — Napoleon Hill
Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs. — Silius Italicus
Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw? — Geoffrey Chaucer
[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside. — O. Henry
[Envy not for...] Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and ill in all,… — Pierre Charron
Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.] — Unknown Author
Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one… — Jose Saramago
Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune… — Jules Renard
Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent. — Critias
We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily destroy the body… — Karl Marlantes
It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years. — Martin Lewis Perl
Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship — Adam Gopnik
Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I dont have to face him on Sunday. — Jamal Lewis
From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of… — Ernest Lawrence
We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when beaten and smashed and biffed by… — Ernest Lawrence

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