Fortune Quotes - Page 12

• Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.

  Critias

  Fighting, Prudent, Sides

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• We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily destroy the body for its own sake. Look at overweight executives headed for heart attacks on the way to getting their pictures in Fortune or anorexic models suffering slow starvation on their way to getting their pictures in Vogue. Protecting ego is the general case.

  Karl Marlantes

  Heart, Ego, Survival

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like to Go to War”, p.65, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Depression, Children, War

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• Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

  Adam Gopnik

  Reading, Pirate, Magazines

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• If you have no family or friends to aid you . . . turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune.

  Horace Greeley

  Home, West, Faces

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• All of us, I suspect, imagine that a world exists from which we alone have been excluded; all of us have our noses pressed against the glass. But if we contemplate our own lives, not the phantom life on the other side, we might find things in them to envy-a family that’s intact; a job we like; excellent health (the thing we take for granted and on which all happiness depends). Good fortune is there, however sporadic, however modest, however difficult to achieve. The trick is to recognize it.

  James Atlas

  Jobs, Glasses, Envy

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• For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years. If this performance is devoid of all egoism, if its guiding motive is unparalleled generosity, if it is absolutely certain that there is no thought of recompense and that, in addition, it has left its visible mark upon the earth, then there can be no mistake.

  Jean Giono

  Mistake, Character, Years

  Jean Giono, Michael McCurdy (2007). “The Man Who Planted Trees”, p.3, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.

  Napoleon Hill

  People, Cooperation, Individual

  Napoleon Hill (2011). “Think and Grow Rich: The Original Classic”, p.110, John Wiley & Sons

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• Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave.

  Brian Tracy

  Thinking, Brave, Favors

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Successful Selling”, p.5, Jaico Publishing House

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• When you delve deep enough, you find that practically every great fortune and great enterprise in America have sprung from the courageous enterprise of some individual. It was Commodore Vanderbilt's enterprise in switching first from running a ferryboat to running other ships, and then, when he was well along in years, his enterprise in switching into railroading, that created what was to become one of the most notable fortunes in the history of the world.

  B. C. Forbes

  Running, Business, America

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• No matter how much money, fame, and fortune you have, it doesn't mean sh** if it's not connected with love.

  Adam Lambert

  Hate, Mean, Matter

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• Catastrophe was only narrowly averted. It was all due to the faith of one man! Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!

  Robert Ley

  Greatness, Men, Found

  "Fate — I believe!". Speech on November 03, 1936. "Wir alle helfen dem Führer". Book by Robert Ley, pp. 103-114, research.calvin.edu. 1937.

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• With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The defeat taught us many lessons and impelled our Navy, for the first time since the outbreak of war, to indulge in critical self-examination.

  Mitsuo Fuchida

  War, Self, Taught Us

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• I had the good fortune to be thrown unexpectedly into something called the Labour Research Unit - a little known organisation set up to assist the fledgling labour movement. It was not a company, nor a statutory board, nor a government department - in fact it did not exist at all as a legal entity. Thus in slightly unorthodox circumstances I became part of that struggle.

  S. R. Nathan

  Struggle, Government, Labour Movement

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• There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.

  Frank Laubach

  Castles, Defeat, Buried

  Frank Charles Laubach (1990). “Man of Prayer: Selected Writings of a World Missionary”

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• Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill Wittliff's photographs, we have a third generation of Lonesome Dove artistry. The same creative power and conviction that allowed Larry McMurtry to transform a workaday scenario for an unproduced screenplay into one of the greatest novels of our time, and that transformed that novel into the greatest western movie ever made, are on display in this collection. A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove is a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece.

  Stephen Harrigan

  Book, Creative, Lonesome Dove

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• Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

  Publilius Syrus

  Criminal Mind, Calamity, Satisfied

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 274, 1856.

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• A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.

  Ron Suskind

  Skills, Leader, Littles

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• While the hero journeys for external fame, fortune, and power, the heroine tries to regain her lost creative spirit… Once she hears the cries of this lost part of herself needing rescue, her journey truly begins.

  Valerie Estelle Frankel

  Hero, Journey, Creative

  Valerie Estelle Frankel (2010). “From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend”, p.20, McFarland

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• One good idea is all you need to start a fortune.

  Brian Tracy

  Ideas, Needs, Good Ideas

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from May 23, 2011

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• Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.

  Demosthenes

  Blessing, Next, Good Fortune

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• If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly on interest income. California was milking interest and capital in about equal proportion. The plains states, however, were devouring capital as a gang of spendthrift heirs might squander a great capitalist's fortune.

  Marc Reisner

  California, Water, Environmental

  Marc Reisner (1986). “Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water”

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• The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

  John D. Rockefeller

  America, Land, Estates

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• When we harness the natural force of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease.

  Deepak Chopra

  Joy, And Love, Ease

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• Expect the Best, Expect Divine Guidance, Expect your Fortunes to Change, Expect a Miracle!

  Wayne Dyer

  Divine Guidance, Miracle, Guidance

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