Fortunes Quotes

217 Fortunes quotes by 176 unique authors

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes. — George Santayana
There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the… — Henry George
Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky
The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of… — Walt Whitman
Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for… — Andrew Young
Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe." — Brian Tracy
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character determines how we lead our lives, how we deal with life's unearned fortunes and misfortunes and how we make choices that determine how those… — Michael Josephson
In the IPL, you are often single-handedly responsible for the fortunes of your team. It makes you more responsible as a player. — Rohit Sharma
During the dot-com days, one could take just about any company public and reap fortunes. All you had to do was to make sky-high projections… — Vivek Wadhwa
Wonder was the grace of the country. Any action could be justified by that: the wonder it was rooted in. Period followed period, and finally… — George W. S. Trow
My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular the biographies of those people who had risked… — Thomas Steinbeck
Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing. — Robert Kiyosaki
Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power. — Cindy Sheehan
The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from God to man.… — Edward McKendree Bounds
The men to whom Jesus Christ committed the fortunes and destiny of His Church were men of prayer. To no other kind of men has… — Edward McKendree Bounds
America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were… — Elizabeth Warren
Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government. — Chen Guangbiao
This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to it, and this… — William Kidd
The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted. — William Graham Sumner
For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of… — Lucy Powell
The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less on their dispositions than on their fortunes — Francois La Rochefoucauld
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or… — Denis Diderot

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