Fortune Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

  Publilius Syrus

  Enemy, Pitiful

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• For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

  Boethius

  Men, Unhappy, Ill

  De Consolatione Philosophiae bk. 2, prose 4 See Dante Alighieri 7

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• I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.

  Little Richard

  Fame, Reason, Lost

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• There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Issues, Doubt

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• The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Friendship, Beautiful, Character

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• The man who begins to speculate in stocks with the intention of making a fortune usually goes broke, whereas the man who trades with a view of getting good interest on his money sometimes gets rich.

  Charles Dow

  Men, Views, Sometimes

  Charles Dow, Shread, Paul (2009). “Dow Theory Unplugged: Charles Dow's Original Editorials & Their Relevance Today”, p.314, Traders Press

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• If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wind, Imagination, Purpose

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.252, Penguin

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• Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.

  Silius Italicus

  Haste, Tides, Tidy

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• Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Change, Reading, Entertainment

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• Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Literature, May, Dice

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• [When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Thinking, Example, May

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• Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

  O. Henry

  Adventure, Shadow, May

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.1277, Delphi Classics

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