Fortune Quotes

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Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same… — Charlotte Bronte
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does… — Mark Twain
People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that… — Stephen Covey
We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within. — Plautus
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create… — Josiah Stamp
America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal… — Ayn Rand
To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. — David McCullough
In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time… — George Washington Carver
War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune. — Walter Raleigh
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means… — Thomas Jefferson
The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing for that of… — James Madison
What good fortune for those in power that people do not think. — Adolf Hitler
We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before… — Napoleon Hill
Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of… — Oliver Goldsmith
Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich… — P T Barnum
There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him. — Thomas Jefferson
A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness… — George Washington Carver
A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may… — Denis Waitley
Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth,… — Thomas Gray

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