Fortune Quotes - Page 5

• Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.

  Sallust

  Depressing, Justice, All Things

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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.
  [Lat., Sed profecto Fortuna in omni re dominatur; ea res cunctas ex lubidine magis, quam ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque.]

  Sallust

  Principles, Oblivion, Caprice

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• It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
  [Lat., Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam vehat aetas.]

  Lucretius

  Morrow, Doubtful

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• Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

  Plutarch

  War, Gale, Tempest

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• Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

  Madame de Stael

  Powerful, Men, Order

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• It is a law, of the gods which is never broken, to sell somewhat dearly the great benefits which they confer on us.

  Pierre Corneille

  Law, Broken, Benefits

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• A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

  Thomas Fuller

  Wise, Business, Men

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• Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

  Julius Caesar

  War, Matter, Force

  "The Civil War". Book by Julius Caesar translated by Jane P. Gardner (Book III, Chapter 68), 47 BC.

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• The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

  Amelia Earhart

  Strong Women, Jobs, Winning

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• A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

  Denis Waitley

  Life, Motivational, Stars

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  Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

  Jean Nidetch

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive Thinking

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• I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

  Lord Byron

  Literature, All Things

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• True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Friendship, Thankful

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• Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, Envy, Justice

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1465, Delphi Classics

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• Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Work, Stones, Philosopher

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• When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Successful, Young

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 18, 2010

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• There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Doors, Doe, Window

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• I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

  Mae West

  Funny, Witty, Women

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• Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.

  John Dryden

  Fate, Soul, Shields

  John Dryden (1717). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: Don Sebastian, king of Portugal. Amphitryon: or, The two Sosia's. Cleomenes, the Spartan heroe. King Arthur. Love triumphant”, p.37

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• Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Perseverance, Yield, Perserverance

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• It is we that are blind, not fortune.

  Thomas Browne

  Eye, Blind, Blindness

  Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Kenelm Digby, Thomas CHAPMAN (of Exeter College, Oxford.) (1831). “Religio Medici”, p.36

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• Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.

  Vincent Voiture

  Giving, Deception, Dear God

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• How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

  Petrarch

  Earth

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• We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Humility, Giving

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