Fortune Quotes
1539 Fortune quotes by 990 unique authors
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Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.
— Jessie Burton
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To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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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Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.
— William Shakespeare
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An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and…
— Robert Fulghum
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The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems,…
— Plato
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As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
— Aristotle
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Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.
— Aristotle
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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold…
— Langston Hughes
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The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
— William Hazlitt
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The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the…
— Max Lerner
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The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
— John Mortimer
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It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.
— Jackie Kennedy
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Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.
— Publilius Syrus
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Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.
— Seneca the Younger
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Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
— Seneca the Younger
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He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the world as he…
— Laozi
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
— Bertolt Brecht
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It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.
— Publilius Syrus
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Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man deems…
— Lydia M. Child
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As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.
— William Wordsworth
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