Fortunes Quotes

217 Fortunes quotes by 176 unique authors

Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism, which was anathema… — Russell Kirk
How do you deserve a fortune? Render fortunes of service. — Jim Rohn
One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired… — Napoleon Hill
There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women,… — Pete Hamill
Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best. — Pierre Charron
You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who put your hands… — Swami Vivekananda
God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and… — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the… — A S W Rosenbach
If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which… — Rene Descartes
Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs. — Arlie Russell Hochschild
Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve upon it; refused… — Dale Carnegie
Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the… — R. D. Laing
I don't know, but I stepped on a scale that gives fortunes and the card read Come back in 15 minutes alone. — Frank Layden
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes. — Juvenal
In that, we agreed with Andrew Carnegie, who said that huge fortunes that flow in large part from society should in large part be returned… — Warren Buffett
Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow. — Horace
Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife.... The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life.... [F]ace to face with chance, I shrink… — William Ernest Henley
For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth. — Alice Cary
Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. — William Shakespeare
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
Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle. — William Ralph Inge
The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes,… — Albert Camus
Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever. — Herodotus
Every man is the architect of his own fortunes, but the neighbors superintend the construction. — George Ade
No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the… — Barbara Tuchman

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