Fortune Quotes - Page 25

• The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Names, Degrees, Different

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.27, Beard Books

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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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• 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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• Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher. To show us where she stood there rests alone Tiber; and that too hastens to be gone. Learn, hence what fortune can. Towns glide away; And rivers, which are still in motion, stay.

  Joachim du Bellay

  Rome, Rivers, Gone

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• Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there's a big difference between being a writer and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at the typewriter. You've got to want to write, I say to them, not want to be a writer. The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune, there are thousands more whose longing is never requited. Even those who succeed often know long periods of neglect and poverty. I did.

  Alex Haley

  Dream, Lonely, Writing

  "Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work". Book by Jack Canfield, Maida Rogerson, Mark Victor Hansen, and Martin Rutte, 1996.

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• Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.

  Betty White

  Golden Retrievers, Never Quit, Affair

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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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• Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in our own good fortune and in the good fortune of others... We can be joyful for people we love, for moments of goodness, for sunlight and trees, and for the very breath within our lungs. Like an innocent child, we can rejoice in life itself, in being alive.

  Jack Kornfield

  Gratitude, Children, People

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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