Fortune Quotes
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Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.
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I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.
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T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
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None can hold fortune still and make it last.
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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.
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Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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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.
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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.
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If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
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Balance and good fortune can only come to a person who is balanced and feels fortunate.
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Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
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You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.
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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.
