Quotes with good-fortune

Quotes 1401 till 1420 of 2950.

• It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

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  Blaise Pascal
  French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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• It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

  Walter Bagehot
  English economist (1826 - 1877)
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• It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

  André Gide
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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• It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end

  Ernest Hemingway
  American writer (1899 - 1961)
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• It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

  J. C. Macaulay
  American clergyman and author (1900 - )
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• It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

  Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
  French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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• It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

  Baltasar Gracian
  Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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• It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

  Gerald F. Lieberman
  American writer
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• It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

  Publilius Syrus
  Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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• It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

  John Maynard Keynes
  British economist (1883 - 1946)
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• It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

  Ajay Naidu
  American actor (1972 - )
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• It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

  Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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• It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve. A good story pushes our buttons, is exciting and memorable.

  Barry Ritholtz
  American author and newspaper columnist
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• It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

  John Dryden
  English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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• It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

  Francesco Petrarca
  Italian poet and writer (1304 - 1374)
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• It is no little wisdom for a man to keep himself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to him, and to turn his heart to God and not to be troubled with man's judgment.

  Thomas à Kempis
  Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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• It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good - and less trouble!

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• It is not a lucky word, this name ''impossible''; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• It is not enough to do good; one must do it in a good way.

  On Compromise p. 58

  John Morley
  British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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• It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

  René Descartes
  French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• responsibility
• politicians
• impossible
• dangerous
• important
• wonderful

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