Fortune Quotes

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She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made… — Paulo Coelho
I walked away exhilarated by my success, because there's nothing like making a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of… — Marilyn Manson
I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory. — Michel de Montaigne
Blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she… — William Shakespeare
I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed. — Leo Tolstoy
I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his church. His followers choose to… — John Connolly
Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet — Neil Peart
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They… — Mark Twain
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune… — Eugene V. Debs
And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of… — Anne Rice
When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds. — Charles Bukowski
She felt drawing further from her and further from her an Archduke, (she did not mind that) a fortune, (she did not mind that) the… — Virginia Woolf
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften… — Robert Louis Stevenson
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you. — Lillian Hellman
I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he realizes that he's… — Barack Obama
I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered… — George Carlin
Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if… — Philippa Gregory
If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable… — Pat Conroy
To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation. — Thomas A. Edison
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I… — Walt Whitman
The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to… — John Greenleaf Whittier
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of… — Arthur Ransome

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