Quotes with ill-fortune

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• He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

  Baltasar Gracian
  Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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• He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad: his countenance unconquered he can shew.

  Boethius
  Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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• Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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• Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

  Walt Whitman
  American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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• Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ''This is a misfortune'' but ''To bear this worthily is good fortune.''

  Marcus Aurelius
  Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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• His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

  Henry Fielding
  English writer (1707 - 1754)
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• His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.

  Buddha
  Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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• Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

  Democritus
  Greek scientist, astronomist and philosopher (460 - 380)
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• How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill done!

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

  Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

  Ovid
  Roman poet (43 - 17)
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• I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.

  Samuel Butler
  English poet (1835 - 1902)
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• I do have big tits. Always had 'em - pushed 'em up, whacked 'em around. Why not make fun of 'em? I've made a fortune with 'em.

  Dolly Parton
  American singer and songwriter (1946 - )
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• I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.

  Anna Held
  Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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• I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.

  Little Richard
   
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• I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

  John D. Rockefeller
  American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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• I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
  

  Lord George Byron
  English poet (1788 - 1824)
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• I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

  George Gordon Byron
   
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• I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

  Hermann Hesse
  German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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• I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my shade shall descend illustrious to the grave.

  Virgil
  Roman poet (70 - 19)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• money-making
• unconquered
• notoriously
• illustrious
• henceforth
• misfortune

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