Fortune Quotes

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  Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Success, Education

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 04, 2016

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• I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Faith

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• Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Latin

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• Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Wrestling, Destiny, Action

  Alfred Armand Montapert (1986). “Pray to Win!: A Blueprint for Success”, Value Pub.

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• Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.

  Eric Butterworth

  Abundance

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• I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.

  Srikumar Rao

  Believe, Life Is Too Short, Grateful

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• Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

  Rufus Choate

  Reading, Passionate, Youth

  Rufus Choate's speech at the dedication of the Peabody Institute, September 29, 1854.

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• Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

  Hector Elizondo

  Fate, Destiny, Fortune Cookie

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fortune and love favor the brave.

  Ovid

  Love, Inspiring, Depressing

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• Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

  Marcus Aurelius

  Adversity, Bitterness, Bears

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• Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

  Aeschylus

  Literature, Rejoice, Good Fortune

  Aeschylus (1965). “The Oresteia trilogy: (Agamemnon, Choephoroe [and] Eumenides) [and] Prometheus bound”

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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.

  Francis Bacon

  Children, Wife, Virtue

  Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Lucan 3

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• This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

  Amelia Barr

  Running, Giving, Luck

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• I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.

  Drew Barrymore

  Success, Jobs, Congratulations

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• Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Jealousy, Sarcastic

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 41

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• There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mood Changes, Bad Times, Good And Bad

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• A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Men, Sight

  1839 Chartism, ch.4.

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• It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Art, Successful, Bored

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• No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

  Patty Duke

  Good Luck, Requirements, Matter

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• No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

  Euripides

  Freedom, Law, People

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• Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

  Anatole France

  Often Is, Literature, Innocence

  "The Gods Are Thirsty". Book by Anatole France, 1912.

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• Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Pieces

  Autobiography pt. 3 (written 1788)

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• The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

  J. Paul Getty

  Mean, Men, Excellence

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• Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state--
  Though poor myself, I know the fortunate:
  First, there's a knowledge of the way from whence
  Good fortune comes--and this is sterling sense:
  Then perseverance, never to decline
  The chase of riches till the prey is thine;
  And firmness never to be drawn away
  By any passion from that noble prey--
  By love, ambition, study, travel, fame,
  Or the vain hope that lives upon a name.

  George Crabbe

  Perseverance, Ambition, Passion

  George Crabbe (1839). “The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”, p.364

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• The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent.
  [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Fashion, Long, Vices

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