Quotes with fortune

  • One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
  • A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
  • When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
  • Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
  • Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
  • There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
  • I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
  • All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
  • War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
  • There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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  • Publilius Syrus A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Seneca A great fortune is a great slavery.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • A. A. Milne Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Horace A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Horace A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
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    Roman poet
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  • Ben Johnston Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her home when in appearance she seems firmly settled.
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  • Euripides Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Bhagavad Gita He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Benjamin Franklin He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Publilius Syrus It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Mark Twain It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Molière The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Thomas Carlyle There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • William Shakespeare There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound by shallows and in misery.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Thomas Gray Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
    Thomas Gray
    British poet (1716 - 1771)
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