Fortune Quotes
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Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
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The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.
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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.
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There are few have Dana's fortune, to have God and gold together.
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When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
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Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.
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The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
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Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.
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Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.
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Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.
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Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.
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India's fortune will depend on how many runs the little champion scores. There is no doubt Tendulkar is the real thing.
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If the loss of your fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.
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Referring to a wealthy miser he said, "He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him."
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There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
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I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then life suddenly comes into focus for me. And, ah, there stand my kids.
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Every person - with his or her own skills, abilities and uniqueness - can contribute to others and bring great joy to those that fortune has not smiled upon.
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Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, just like a poet, sometimes assigns the leading role, sometimes that of the supporting role; sometimes that of a king, sometimes that of a beggar. Do not, therefore, being a supporting actor, desire the role of the lead.
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My pride fell with my fortunes.
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A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
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Will Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest terms?
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Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.
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It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.
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My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to accustom myself to believing that there is nothing entirely in our power except our thoughts, so that after we have done our best regarding things external to us, everything in which we do not succeed is for us absolutely impossible.
