Fortune Quotes

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You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who put your hands… — Swami Vivekananda
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job, you can make a living. If you work… — Jim Rohn
If you make a sale, you can earn a commission. If you make a friend, you can earn a fortune! — Jeffrey Gitomer
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE — Michelle Moran
My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune. — Maureen O'Hara
Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be… — Barry Pepper
God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and… — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow. — Miguel de Cervantes
In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in terms… — Ayn Rand
The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a… — Aga Khan IV
I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the… — A S W Rosenbach
Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening. . . . Come up. I'll tell your fortune. . . .… — Mae West
Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it. — Hector Elizondo
It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known… — Arthur E Waite
If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which… — Rene Descartes
Liev cares about a lot things. Israel is one of them. We had the good fortune of going there a couple of years ago. To… — Naomi Watts
Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess of Fortune, come… — Swami Vivekananda
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause. — Ben Jonson
I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and… — Alfred Russel Wallace
It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have… — Lesley Garrett
So much of what happened to me is good fortune. But I would say: Try to get a job that gives you some time; get… — David Lynch
Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs. — Arlie Russell Hochschild
Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve upon it; refused… — Dale Carnegie
Although I have made a fortune in the financial markets, I now fear that the untrammeled intensification of laissez-faire capitalism and the spread of market… — George Soros
In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of… — Boethius

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