Fortune Quotes
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Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Mexico's making a fortune off the United States.
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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
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Behind every fortune there is a crime.
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For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marry. A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.
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When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.
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A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.
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Before I was fourteen I planned to leave school forever, and trust to fortune to get an education. At that time it did not occur to me that I would need to study the English language and acquire a knowledge of geography, history and other subjects so necessary to understanding the modern world. That was to come many years later…
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I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.
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Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave.
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The truth brings no man a fortune.
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What else may hap, to time I will commit.
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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.
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It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing.
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Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
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Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.
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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
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Snapchat's ramp reminded us of another mobile app Benchmark had the good fortune to back at an early stage: Instagram.
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There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
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O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.
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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
