Fortune Quotes
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Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.
Erika Slezak
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A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
Bill Gates
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I've had some good fortune in this building. It's always challenging. The two sides upstairs and downstairs play differently. There's a lot of obstacles here and a lot of things that keep you on your toes. But the fans here are great and I think it's our most prestigious tournament.
Chris Barnes Cannibal Corpse
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From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.
Ernest Lawrence
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
Wislawa Szymborska
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One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Dont listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, theyd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut. Follow your instincts. Every once in a while, take a chance.
Michael Cudlitz
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Leading is not the same as being the leader. Being the leader means you hold the highest rank, either by earning it, good fortune or navigating internal politics. Leading, however, means that others willingly follow you—not because they have to, not because they are paid to, but because they want to.
Simon Sinek
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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Jane Austen
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The fortune of war is always doubtful.
Seneca the Younger
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Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
Demosthenes
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The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy.
Michelangelo
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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
Sallust
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If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
Winifred Holtby
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Fortune is either with you or it's not.
Tom Araya Slayer
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I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.
Richard MacDonald
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
Tacitus
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Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
Raymond Queneau
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I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line.
Mindy McCready
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Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything.
William Shakespeare
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Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.
Anthony Trollope
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Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.
Silius Italicus
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Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.
William Shakespeare
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Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.
Ed Seykota