Fortune Quotes
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Balance and good fortune can only come to a person who is balanced and feels fortunate.
Stuart Wilde
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Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!
Jane Austen
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You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.
Herbie Hancock
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Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.
Alec Wilkinson
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It's hard to tell our bad luck from our good luck sometimes. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something when if we'd understood the situation better we might have celebrated our good fortune instead.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.
William Graham Sumner
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We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.
Seneca the Younger
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Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
Thomas Carlyle
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To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.
Thomas Carlyle
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A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing.
Gautama Buddha
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Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
Seneca the Younger
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Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.
Nat Hentoff
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It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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As soon as I say the words, I know they were the right ones. My eyes dip down to Dad’s memorial plaque. Truth doesn’t lie in the heart of fortune… it’s under Triumph Towers, where the labs are.
Beth Revis