Fortune Quotes - Page 13

• The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mistake, Fall, Men

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• It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.

  Aristotle

  Ignorance, Men, Self

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• These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good fortune to witness the light of this auspicious morn.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Gratitude, Military, Light

  NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”

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• Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Children, Fate

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• A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Happiness, Sunny, Disposition

  Andrew Carnegie (2006). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth”, p.8, Penguin

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• I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.

  Anna Quindlen

  Life, Children, Editors

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• Why should we be willing to go by faith? We do all things in this world by faith in the word of others. By faith only we know our position in the world, our circumstances, our rights and privileges, our fortunes, our parents, our brothers and sisters, our age, our mortality. Why should Religion be an exception?

  John Henry Newman

  Faith, Brother, Rights

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• Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. The men who have won fame and fortune through having an idea are those who devoted every ounce of their strength and every dollar they could muster to putting it into operation. Ford had a big idea, but he had to sweat and suffer and sacrifice to make it work.

  B. C. Forbes

  Strength, Sacrifice, Men

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• The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.

  P. T. Barnum

  Life Is Good, Sick, Foundation

  P. T. Barnum (2015). “The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money”, p.7, Booklassic

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• CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Two, Kind

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.31, University of Georgia Press

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• If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least one reason for this good fortune, then you still have work to do.

  Richard Askey

  Nice, Reason Why, Mathematics

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• Just remember, without discipline, a clear strategy, and a concise plan, the speculator will fall into all the emotional pitfalls of the market - jump from one stock to another, hold a losing position too long, and cut out of a winner too soon, for no reason other than fear of losing profit. Greed, Fear, Impatience, Ignorance, and Hope will all fight for mental dominance over the speculator. Then, after a few failures and catastrophes the speculator may become demoralised, depressed, despondent, and abandon the market and the chance to make a fortune from what the market has to offer.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Fall, Ignorance, Cutting

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• There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.

  Dante Hall

  Football, College, Nfl

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• But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

  John Dryden

  Love, Ambition, Ice

  John Dryden (1873). “Poetical Works: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.53

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• His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

  Henry Fielding

  Marriage, Design, Way

  'Tom Jones' (1749) bk. 11, ch. 4

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• Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

  Seneca the Younger

  Work, Joyful, Deserted

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• Your unhappiness is not due to your want of a fortune or high position or fame or sufficient vitamins. It is due not to a want of something outside of you, but to a want of something inside you. You were made for perfect happiness. No wonder everything short of God disappoints you.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Happiness, Perfect, Want

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• Wisdom overcomes fortune.

  Juvenal

  Wisdom, Power, Overcoming

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• A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to the kingdom the young and old of reapers and reign among the riches as the wondrous fortune keepers.

  Pam Muñoz Ryan

  Book, Jewels, Library

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• Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Thinking, Punishment, Deities

  Sheri S. Tepper (2013). “The Visitor”, p.216, Hachette UK

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• 'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

  Homer

  Giving, Soul, Birth

  Homer (2008). “The Iliad of Homer: Easyread Large Edition”, p.306, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.

  Robert Southwell

  Smile, Thinking, Frowning

  Saint Robert Southwell (1856). “The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell”, p.59

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• Toads are conservative animals, I think, and not much given to expecting the best from fortune. Some weeks ago, well before the end of October, I accidentally dug up one while turning over some garden earth. I was surprised, naturally, when one of the clods heaved over on its die and there, in some annoyance, sat at toad.

  Henry Mitchell

  Animal, Garden, Thinking

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• The much-maligned idle rich have received a bad rap: They have maintained their wealth while many There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it. Andrew Carnegie of the energetic rich, aggressive real estate operators, corporate acquirers, oil drillers, etc. have their fortunes disappear.

  Warren Buffett

  Real, Rap, Men

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• What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Different, Action, Virtue

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