Quotes with fortune

Quotes 161 till 180 of 215.

• The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

  Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer (1613 - 1680)
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• The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

  Thomas à Kempis
  Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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• The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

  Jean Paul Getty
  American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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• The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark - without charging anyone with a crime.

  Bill Dedman
  American journalist (1960 - )
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• The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

  Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.

  Stephen Leacock
  Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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• The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.

  William Penn
  English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, ''I shall today be uppermost.''

  Confucius
  Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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• The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

  Amelia Earhart
  American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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• The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a piece for 'Fortune' saying everything's going to be different now.

  Bethany McLean
  American journalist (1970 - )
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• There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.

  Jane Austen
  English writer (1775 - 1817)
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• There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

  Jules Renard
  French writer (1864 - 1910)
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• 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.

  Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer (1613 - 1680)
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• There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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• 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.

  Charles De Montesquieu
  French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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• There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.

  Abraham Cowley
  English poet (1618 - 1667)
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• Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• well-publicized
• investigation
• distinguishes
• imperceptibly
• attentively
• disasters

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