Fortune Quotes
1539 Fortune quotes by 990 unique authors
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Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
— Demosthenes
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If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly on interest income.…
— Marc Reisner
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
— John D. Rockefeller
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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When we harness the natural force of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease.
— Deepak Chopra
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Expect the Best, Expect Divine Guidance, Expect your Fortunes to Change, Expect a Miracle!
— Wayne Dyer
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Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being thus united in…
— Zhuangzi
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Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to be the whole…
— Eknath Easwaran
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Will a guaranteed annual wage kill incentive among the poor? If a man is given a certain amount of security, won't he quit working? Exactly…
— Pierre Berton
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By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
— Barry Gibb
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I got one entire song from fortune cookies (Land of Sunshine). On another one, I took words from different Frank Sinatra songs and pasted them…
— Mike Patton
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It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public,
— Solomon Northup
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The best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a big one.
— Junior Johnson
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The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth.
— Calvin Miller
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The greatest change to go from average to fortune is not so much an increase in knowledge, but rather, a change in our emotions about…
— Jim Rohn
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Behind every fortune, there's a crime.
— Method Man
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The path of the knowledgeable, successful person, which only leads to supreme good fortune and great success is always directly in front of you.
— Chris Prentiss
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It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune.
— Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
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Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I made a fortune getting out too soon.
— J. P. Morgan
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I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.
— Leonard Maltin
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It has not been my fortune to know very much of Freemasonry, but I have had the great fortune to know many Freemasons and have…
— Calvin Coolidge
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It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union, who managed…
— George Friedman
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
— Wislawa Szymborska
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