Fortunes Quotes
217 quotes by 179 authors
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best…
— Martin Van Buren
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People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
— Louisa May Alcott
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We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.
— William Shakespeare
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God and nature have thrown all human fortunes into the midst of mankind; and they are thus attainable rather by rapine than by industry, by…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so that…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes…
— William James
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There is always someone better than you. Whatever it is that you do for a living, chances are, you will run into a situation in…
— Pat Summitt
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Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking,…
— Andrew Carnegie
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Our fortunes rise together, and they fall together. 'All men are brothers,' said the Analects. We have a collective responsibility-to bring about a more stable…
— Christine Lagarde
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Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times.
— Alexander Pope
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Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do…
— William Shakespeare
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We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.
— John Ray
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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
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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
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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
— David McCullough
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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
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