Fortune Quotes
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I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck.
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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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I have the good fortune of knowing both John McCain and Donald Trump well, both men have more in common than the today's media hype would have you believe. Both blazed trails in their careers and love our great nation.
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If you have no family or friends to aid you . . . turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune.
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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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Behind every fortune there is a crime.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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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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Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune.
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We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.
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Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.
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Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a nation, or city, or empire; or does fortune give this as an example to the victor also of the uncertainty of human affairs, which never continue in one stay? For what time can there be for us mortals to feel confident, when our victories over others especially compel us to dread fortune, and while we are exulting, the reflection that the fatal day comes now to one, now to another, in regular succession, dashes our joy.
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
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Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.
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I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.
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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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Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home.
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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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I don't know the reason for that particular band's fortune or lack of it. But, in our case, I think it's the music that we make and made is timeless. It may remind you of the time you heard it.
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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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To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.
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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.
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He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.
