Fortune Quotes - Page 9

• There is always someone better than you. Whatever it is that you do for a living, chances are, you will run into a situation in which you are not as talented as the person next to you. That's when being a competitor can make a difference in your fortunes.

  Pat Summitt

  Running, Perseverance, Differences

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.155, Crown Business

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• He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul.

  Celia Thaxter

  Flower, Passion, Garden

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.4, Applewood Books

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• Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Opportunity, Optimism, Luck

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• If you help others with sincere motivation and sincere concern, that will bring you more fortune, more friends, more smiles, and more success. If you forget about others' rights and neglect others' welfare, ultimately you will be very lonely.

  Dalai Lama

  Lonely, Motivation, Helping Others

  The Dalai Lama (2009). “Worlds in Harmony”, p.75, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Uplifting, Hope, Sky

  "The Book of the Bizarre: Freaky Facts & Strange Stories". Book by Varla Ventura (p. 46), 2008.

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• What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Happiness, Happy, Discovery

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• Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Mother, Teacher, Children

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• The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

  Confucius

  Fate, Today, Wheels

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• Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Bravery, Greed

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• Fortune and humor govern the world.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  World, Sense Of Humor

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• People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune... and at bottom it is always man himself that stands in his own way.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Honesty, Men, Thinking

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• In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Cities, Desire

  Benjamin Disraeli, Sheila Mary Smith (1981). “Sybil: or, the two nations”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Art, Philosophy, Years

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4514, Delphi Classics

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• It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest: better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune. . . .

  Samuel Smiles

  Success, Honesty, Character

  Samuel Smiles (2005). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance”, p.287, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Honesty is incompatible with amassing a large fortune.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Honesty

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• People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to...rather than detracts from...our lives.

  Stephen Covey

  Believe, Mean, Winning

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• I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.

  Plautus

  Beauty, Character, Jewels

  "Plautus: The little Carthaginian. Pseudolus. The rope".

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• Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create money, and, with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again... Take this great power away from them and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in... But, if you want to continue to be a slave of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the bankers continue to create money and control credit.

  Josiah Stamp

  Money, Liberty, Would Be

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• Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

  Edward Abbey

  Wise, Men, Astrology

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

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• Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.

  Umar

  Inspiring, Indifference, Fear Allah

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• The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.

  Noah Webster

  Rome, Republic, Causes

  Noah Webster (1790). “A collection of Essays and fugitive writings on moral, historical, polictical and literary subjects”, p.331

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• One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Money, Spring, Insignificant Things

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.

  Betty White

  Golden Retrievers, Never Quit, Affair

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• The moment this House undertakes to legislate upon this subject slavery, it dissolves the Union. Should it be my fortune to have a seat upon this floor, I will abandon it the instant the first decisive step is taken looking towards legislation of this subject. I will go home to preach, and if I can, practice, disunion, and civil war, if needs be. A revolution must ensue, and this republic sink in blood.

  James Henry Hammond

  War, Taken, Home

  James Henry Hammond (1836). “Remarks of Mr. Hammond, of South Carolina, on the Question of Receiving Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia”, p.12

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• I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.

  Michael Pollan

  Land, Development, Way

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