Fortune Quotes - Page 18

• Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, World, Action

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• Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

  Raymond Queneau

  Men, Religion, Disappear

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• Disruption is about risk-taking.
  But then you become a Fortune
  500 company, which is about risk
  mitigation

  Steve Case

  Risk, Disruption, Company

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• Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with others. Rejoicing generates good will.

  Pema Chodron

  Practice, Down And, Helping

  Pema Chodron (2007). “No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• You have to do more than you get paid for because that’s where the fortune is.

  Jim Rohn

  Paid

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 10, 2015

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• The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune is exactly the same.

  Ralph Marston

  Way, Handle, Best Way

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• There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.

  Pete Hamill

  Football, Country, Player

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• I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Running, Home, Thinking

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• I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now. Hell, I'm blessed to be in any position, you know? There are so many guys who had good lives, great lives, and blew it...I think there are some guys who think they don't deserve to have good lives. They feel they don't deserve their good fortune, so they throw it away. One of my good friends was Chris Farley. Chris blew it. He blew the whole enchilada.

  Tom Sizemore

  Good Life, Blessed, Good Friend

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And when a person does not understand the creation of resources and wealth, the only intellectual alternative is to believe that increasing wealth must be at the cost of someone else. This belief that our good fortune must be an exploitation of others may be the taproot of false prophecy about doom that our evil ways must bring upon us.

  Julian Simon

  Believe, Hands, Evil

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• Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Stones, Fortune Teller

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.376, Random House

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• I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune for someone else; but the fact is that is how many things in life work sadly.

  Mary Hart

  Things In Life, Tragedy, Facts

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• No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect.

  Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulieres

  Satisfaction, Intellect, Satisfied

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt (p. 690), 1922.

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  I must say as to what I have seen of Texas it is the garden spot of the world. The best land and the best prospects for health I ever saw, and I do believe it is a fortune to any man to come here. There is a world of country here to settle.

  Davy Crockett

  Country, Believe, Cowboy

  Letter to his children, January 09, 1836.

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• I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Arms, Companion, Egotism

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• Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.

  Saint Basil

  Men, Challenges, Good Man

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• Everything has a price...
  No matter if it's fortune, fame or your life.
  I understood later that it's all about paper,
  Everything has a fee in the land of the free.

  O.C.

  Rap, Land, Hip Hop

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• I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, . . . increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Progressive Taxation, Political

  Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge (2017). “The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.3154, Madison & Adams Press

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• Billions of dollars have been lost to the Negro race within the last fifty years through disloyalty on the part of successful Negroes, who have preferred to give away their fortunes to members of other races, than to bequeath them to worthy institutions and movements of their own to help their own people.

  Marcus Garvey

  Successful, Race, Years

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, The Majority Press

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• No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears,
  No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears,
  Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn,
  Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn,
  Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows
  Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Beauty, Stars, Night

  Erasmus Darwin (1806). “Containing the loves of the plants”, p.165

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• If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.

  Walt Disney

  Getting High, Fame, Studios

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• Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!

  Walt Disney

  World, Fancy, Fame

  c.1966 Comment to his wife during his last illness. Quoted in Leonard Mosley Disney's World (1985).

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• How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!

  Henry Clay

  Unjust, Partiality

  Letter, 4 December 1801

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• I am convinced that you don't need to spend a fortune to look like a million.

  Jil Sander

  Needs, Looks, Convinced

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• Your fortune is misfortune if it is not Love.

  Silent lotus

  Life, Ifs, Love Life

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