Fortune Quotes

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  Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Success, Education

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 04, 2016

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• I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Faith

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• One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Relationship, Thank You, Giving

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• Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.

  Eric Butterworth

  Abundance

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• Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Friendship, Best Friend, Networking

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• If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

  Bodhidharma

  Blessed, Past, Rewards

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.5, Macmillan

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

  Tecumseh

  Tribes, Makers, My Own

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• Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state,
  My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Wheels, Compass

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.61

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• Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

  Lydia M. Child

  Angel, Men, Clouds

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 39, 1843.

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• Action makes more fortune than caution.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Success, Acting, Action

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• Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

  James Russell Lowell

  Bravery, Literature, Weak

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• Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Good Luck, Best Of Luck

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.107, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Success, Mother

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• Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Character, Kwanzaa, Architect

  Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International

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• Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Flower, Fall, Power

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.131, tredition

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• Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

  Livy

  Time, Blessed, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Annales", XXX. 42, (pp. 289-293), 1922.

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• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Funny, Relationship

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

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• Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

  Euripides

  Literature, Helping, Judgment

  "Pirithous". Play by Euripides, 5th century BCE.

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• Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

  Publilius Syrus

  Effectiveness, Action, Depends

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• Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

  Mark Twain

  Opportunity, Men, Gambling

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• Fortune confounds the wise,
  And when they least expect it turns the dice.

  John Dryden

  Wise, Dice, Turns

  John Dryden (1854). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.60

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• Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Looks, Blind

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Fortune'

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• Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

  Emily Dickinson

  Good Luck, Gambling, Toil

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1630, Delphi Classics

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• A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

  Horace

  Change, Heart, Adversity

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• You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

  Anita Baker

  Family, Music, Home

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