Fortunes Quotes

217 Fortunes quotes by 176 unique authors

My pride fell with my fortunes. — William Shakespeare
Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily… — James Surowiecki
What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands.… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and… — Woodrow Wilson
In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born… — Diana Wynne Jones
I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes. — Khalil Gibran
For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among… — Marcel Proust
Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives,… — Thomas Jefferson
America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal… — Ayn Rand
Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st. — William Shakespeare
You've taught me that we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain and dull. If we love and allow ourselves to be… — Dean Koontz
I suppose no one is as handsome or as beautiful as he or she wishes, or as brilliant in school or as witty in speech… — Jeffrey R. Holland
…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children. — Louisa May Alcott
Might have a couple of kinks to work through," Hale admitted then reached for her hand. As soon as he touched her, Kat knew there… — Ally Carter
...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate. — Ally Carter
It was her brother,' said Mr. Thornton to himself. 'I am glad.I may never see her again; but it is comfort-a relief-to know that much.… — Elizabeth Gaskell
As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but from the accidents… — Katherine Boo
Go home all you boys who fought with me and help build up the shattered fortunes of our old state — Robert E. Lee
Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean. — Napoleon Hill
Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market. — Jason Calacanis
Long experience has taught me that the crux of my fortunes is whether I can radiate good will toward my audience. There is only one… — Howard Thurston
Do all the other things, the ambitious things-travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes...but as you do, to… — George Saunders

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