Fortune Quotes - Page 6

• From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

  Tecumseh

  Tribes, Makers, My Own

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• The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

  Saadi

  Heaven, Earth, Faces

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• To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friendship, True Friend, Real

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• It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

  A. E. Waite

  Sight, Acting, Firsts

  A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god-all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Heaven, Despair, Shelves

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1871). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.682

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• Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
  [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]

  Francois Rabelais

  Son, Cracks, Vain

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• His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.

  Gautama Buddha

  Dust, May, Wheels

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• It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Literature, Fool, Merit

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• Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

  Jim Hightower

  Boys, Agriculture, Littles

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• We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Violence, Patient, Violent

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• It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.

  Torquato Tasso

  Should, Fortunate

  "Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Act II, scene III, line 115, 1790.

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• We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Knows, Bad Fortune, Values

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• There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Taken, Opportunity

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

  Horace

  Favors, Too Much, Fool

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• Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

  Francis Quarles

  Wisdom, Cards, Literature

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• If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in.

  William Cowper

  Half, Way, Gale

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.171

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• The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

  Homer

  Cups, Bitter, Drains

  Homer (1760). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.11

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• To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.

  Aeschylus

  Fortunate, Mortals

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (Choëphoræ, 60), 1922.

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• Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

  Edward Gibbon

  Men, Cities, Empires

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.358

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• Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mother, Perseverance, Men

  "Don Quixote de la Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, part II, book IV, chapter 38., 1605-1615.

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• Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

  Walt Whitman

  Karma, Attitude, Positive Thinking

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.226, NYU Press

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• Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

  John Dryden

  Ill

  John Dryden (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.143

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• Action makes more fortune than caution.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Success, Acting, Action

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• Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Courage, Philosophical, Heart

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• We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Life, Success, Luxury

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