Fortune Quotes

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Every woman is the architect of her own fortune. — Jessie Burton
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. — William Shakespeare
An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws. — Ambrose Bierce
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
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
As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading… — Thomas Jefferson
Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good. — Aristotle
Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property. — Aristotle
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
The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them. — William Hazlitt
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
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech. — John Mortimer
It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding. — Jackie Kennedy
Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad. — Publilius Syrus
Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash. — Seneca the Younger
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down. — Seneca the Younger
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
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad. — Bertolt Brecht
It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it. — Publilius Syrus
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
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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