Fortune Quotes - Page 11

• O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

  John Donne

  Fall, Power, Men

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.26, Delphi Classics

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• In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.

  Grover Cleveland

  Patriotic, Thoughtful, Lakes

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• We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason

  Marcus Cornelius Fronto

  Serendipity, Temples, Reason

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• I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.

  Daniel Boone

  Way

  "The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer". Book by John Mack Faragher, p. 301, 1993.

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• If little labour, little are our gains:
  Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

  Robert Herrick

  Pain, Men, Littles

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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• So many of us invest a fortune making ourselves look good to the world, yet inside we are falling apart. It's time to invest on the inside.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Fall, Looks, World

  Twitter post from Dec 14, 2014

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• Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

  Quintilian

  Life, Fear Of The Future

  "De Institutione Oratoria", XII. 5, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 289-93, 1922.

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• There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.

  Tacitus

  Escaping, Brave, Trouble

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• Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

  Ben Harper

  Needs

  Song: Diamonds on the Inside, 2003

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• Publications such as Forbes and Fortune continually rank Georgia cities as among the best places to live, work and run a business.

  Roy Barnes

  Running, Cities, Georgia

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• In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

  Cyrus the Great

  Kindness, Adversity, Men

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• Fortune seized at the right moment gives victory.

  Alexander Suvorov

  Giving, Victory, Moments

  "Political Affairs" by Earl Browder, (p. 1005), 2001.

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• Even those with unspendable fortunes only have one mind, one mouth, two ears, two eyes and one pleasure station. There's only so much fun you can take.

  Tibor Fischer

  Fun, Eye, Two

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• I never could understand the popular belief that because a man makes a lot of money he has a lot of brains. Some very rich men who made their fortunes have been among the stupidest men I have ever met.

  Julius Rosenwald

  Men, Brain, Belief

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• Business schools make a fortune forcing their students to take in a HUGE amount of information. The majority of it is theoretical. The majority of that is useless.

  Josh Kaufman

  School, Majority, Useless

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• To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

  Bruce Feirstein

  Men, Wife, Want

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• I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions.

  Roland Gift

  Self Worth, Wheels, Records

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• The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive.

  Jimmy Nail

  Fame, Whole

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• When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.

  Fernando de Rojas

  Doors

  "La Celestina". Book by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.

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• I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one and inseparable, established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.

  William Tyler

  Country, Believe, America

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• Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

  Seneca the Younger

  Courage, Riches

  "Medea", CLXXVI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 142-44, 1922.

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• Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Deceit

  William Shakespeare (1863). “Shakespeare's plays, abridged and revised for the use of girls by R. Baughan. Book 1, containing the tragedies and historical plays”, p.50

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• I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.

  Anna Held

  Years, Engagement, Want

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• Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Sight, Evil

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

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• President Bush will come here and there will be new "friends" of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who "liberated" them.

  Robert Fisk

  New Relationship, America, President

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