Fortune Quotes - Page 16

• Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fashion, Hands, Skills

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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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• Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being thus united in ONE, his body and limbs are but as dust of the earth, and life and death, beginning, and end, are but as night and day, and cannot destroy his peace. How much less such trifles as gain or loss, misfortune or good fortune?

  Zhuangzi

  Loss, Night, Men

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• Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to be the whole of existence. Yet we can break out of this shell and enter a new world.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Pain, Storm, Break Out

  Eknath Easwaran (2007). “The Dhammapada: (Classics of Indian Spirituality)”, p.66, Nilgiri Press

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• Will a guaranteed annual wage kill incentive among the poor? If a man is given a certain amount of security, won't he quit working? Exactly the same contention could be made about the sons of the wealthy who are left large fortunes. Yet the evidence suggests that, given economic freedom, people will generally choose to do that which interests them most. It is up to society to see that these interests are widened and that too requires investment.

  Pierre Berton

  Son, Men, People

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• I got one entire song from fortune cookies (Land of Sunshine). On another one, I took words from different Frank Sinatra songs and pasted them together. Another one, I was just driving around and there was a piece of paper on the ground, so I stole it.

  Mike Patton

  Song, Sunshine, Land

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

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• It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.

  Solomon Northup

  Accounts, Has Beens

  Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Solomon Northup, Olaudah Equiano (2016). “Slave Narratives Compilation: Twelve Years A Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave”, p.330, ShandonPress

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• The best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a big one.

  Junior Johnson

  Racing, Way, Bigs

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• The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth.

  Calvin Miller

  Sky, World, Maps

  Calvin Miller (2010). “The Singer Trilogy: The Mythic Retelling of the Story of the New Testament”, p.335, InterVarsity Press

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• The greatest change to go from average to fortune is not so much an increase in knowledge, but rather, a change in our emotions about achieving our goals.

  Jim Rohn

  Average, Goal, Emotion

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• Behind every fortune, there's a crime.

  Method Man

  Crime, Behinds

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• The path of the knowledgeable, successful person, which only leads to supreme good fortune and great success is always directly in front of you.

  Chris Prentiss

  Successful, Path, Great Success

  Chris Prentiss (2008). “The Little Book of Secrets: Gentle Wisdom for Joyful Living”, p.81, BookBaby

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• It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Understanding, Faults, Common

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• A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune.

  Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

  Chess, Pawns, Fellows

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• Now the fair goddess, Fortune,
  Fall deep in love with thee, and her great charms
  Misguide thy opposers' swords!

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Deep Love, Fairness

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.38

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• But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy,
  Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great:
  Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast,
  And with the half-blown rose; but Fortune, O!

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Boys, Rose

  William Shakespeare (1837). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare. Printed from the Text of the Most Renowned Editors, with ... Engravings, Accounts Historical and Explanatory of Each Play, a Copious and Elaborate Glossary, and the Author's Life [by C. Symmons].”, p.381

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• Day, night, late, early,
  At home, abroad, alone, in company,
  Waking or sleeping, still my care hath been
  To have her match'd; and having now provided
  A gentleman of princely parentage,
  Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly train'd,
  Stuff'd, as they say, with honourable parts,
  Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man-
  And then to have a wretched puling fool,
  A whining mammet, in her fortune's tender,
  To answer 'I'll not wed, I cannot love;
  I am too young, I pray you pardon me'!

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Sleep, Night

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1813). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Twenty-one Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.184

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• Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, People, Judging

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• I made a fortune getting out too soon.

  J. P. Morgan

  Success, Business, Made

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• I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.

  Leonard Maltin

  Teamwork, Memories, Interviews

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• It has not been my fortune to know very much of Freemasonry, but I have had the great fortune to know many Freemasons and have been able in that way to judge the tree by its fruit. I know of your high ideals. I have seen that you hold your meetings in the presence of the open Bible, and I know that men who observe that formality have high sentiments of citizenship, of worth, and character. That is the strength of our Commonwealth and nation.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Character, Men, Judging

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• It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union, who managed the Cold War with meticulous care in retrospect. Imagine the European diplomats of 1914 or 1938 armed with nuclear weapons. It is easy to believe they would not have been as cautious.

  George Friedman

  War, Believe, Two

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• I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Government, Hands, Political

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• Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to be free, and heaven and earth will aid the resolution. On you depend the fortunes of America. You are to decide the important question, on which rest the happiness and liberty of millions yet unborn. Act worthy of yourselves.

  Joseph Warren

  Country, Powerful, Patriotic

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