Quotes with good-fortune

Quotes 1821 till 1840 of 2950.

  • Ashley Montagu One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • James T. Mccay One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.
    James T. Mccay
    American author
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  • William Ellery Channing One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • William Shakespeare One good deed, dying
    slaughters a thousand waiting upon that.
    The Winter's Tale
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Benjamin Franklin One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Thomas Paine One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Bob Marley One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain.
    Trenchtown Rock
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Henry Miller One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Oscar Wilde One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Lew Wallace One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
    Lew Wallace
    American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician, and author of (1827 - 1905)
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  • B. Joweit One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
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  • Bob Richards One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • Will Durant One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games and it cannot be done by men out of touch with their instinctive selves.
    Jung and the Story of Our Time, Laurens van der Post (1977)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bill Viola One of the most important things for me in terms of my working method is doubt. I get very insecure about my ideas. And I don't say 'insecure' in kind of a paranoid way. I mean just: 'Are they good enough?' 'Is this the right thing to do?' I really beat myself up over that.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Robert A. Heinlein One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Nancy Astor One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
    Nancy Astor
    First woman Member of Parliament (1879 - 1964)
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  • Bing Gordon One skill of a great entrepreneur is to get a whole complicated discussion and then say, 'We're going to do this one and we're only going to do this one'. Managers are good at prioritizing. Entrepreneurs know what is the one thing.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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