Fortune Quotes - Page 9

• Enlightenment, or true happiness, is not a transcendental state. It is a condition of broad wisdom, boundless energy, and good fortune wherein we each shape our own destiny, find fulfillment in daily activities, and come to understand our ultimate purpose in life.

  Josei Toda

  Destiny, Daily Activities, Enlightenment

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• It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.

  Aristotle

  Ignorance, Men, Self

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• I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.

  Anna Quindlen

  Life, Children, Editors

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• If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those who have reached the pinnacle of fame or fortune, even the most frivolous of society women - if they knew what profound inner pleasure awaits those who gaze at the heavens, then France, nay, the whole of Europe, would be covered with telescopes instead of bayonets, thereby promoting universal happiness and peace.

  Camille Flammarion

  Teacher, Mean, Independent

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• A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

  Lew Wallace

  Funny, Men, Trials

  Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ bk. 5, ch. 7 (1880)

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• These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good fortune to witness the light of this auspicious morn.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Gratitude, Military, Light

  NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”

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• Why should we be willing to go by faith? We do all things in this world by faith in the word of others. By faith only we know our position in the world, our circumstances, our rights and privileges, our fortunes, our parents, our brothers and sisters, our age, our mortality. Why should Religion be an exception?

  John Henry Newman

  Faith, Brother, Rights

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• There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes.

  Garry Kasparov

  Mean, People, Facts

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• No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Men, Modesty, Modest

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.115, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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• The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mistake, Fall, Men

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• Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Children, Fate

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• A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Happiness, Sunny, Disposition

  Andrew Carnegie (2006). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth”, p.8, Penguin

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• Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. The men who have won fame and fortune through having an idea are those who devoted every ounce of their strength and every dollar they could muster to putting it into operation. Ford had a big idea, but he had to sweat and suffer and sacrifice to make it work.

  B. C. Forbes

  Strength, Sacrifice, Men

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• The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.

  P. T. Barnum

  Life Is Good, Sick, Foundation

  P. T. Barnum (2015). “The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money”, p.7, Booklassic

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• CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Two, Kind

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.31, University of Georgia Press

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• If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least one reason for this good fortune, then you still have work to do.

  Richard Askey

  Nice, Reason Why, Mathematics

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• Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans.

  Lynda Resnick

  Marketing, Entrepreneurial, Factories

  "Building Your Business From the Ground Up or Licensing Your Idea: Which Is Right for You?" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2009.

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• In the modern era, it isn't enough to write, you must also be the Writer, with a capital 'W,' and play your part as the protagonist in the cautionary narrative in which you will fail or triumph, be in or out, hot or cold, ride the wheel of fortune.

  Tony Kushner

  Writing, Play, Triumph

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It is my fixed conviction that if a parent can give his children a passionate and wholesome devotion to the outdoors, the fact that he cannot leave each of them a fortune does not really matter so much.

  Archibald Rutledge

  Children, Giving, Parent

  Archibald Rutledge (2015). “The Doom of Ravenswood”, p.34, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.

  Victor Cruz

  Football, Fame, Young

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• In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.

  Karen Kain

  School, People, Generosity

  "The Big Interview: Raising Kain". Interview with Richard Ouzounian, www.thestar.com. November 4, 2011.

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• I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga.

  Andrew Harvey

  Yoga, Heart, Genius

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• Retarded kids are the best. When they ask for an autograph I just fake sign a picture and tell them that it's in invisible ink and it will show up later. They totally buy it. It saves me a fortune in markers.

  Zach Braff

  Kids, Fake, Ink

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• I'm working full time on my job and part time on my fortune

  Jim Rohn

  Jobs, Marketing, Part Time

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• When I read in Fortune magazine that Warren Buffet, the billionaire investor and one of the world's richest men, was investing in a direct sales (network marketing) company, I decided I was missing something.

  David Bach

  Men, Missing, Marketing

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