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Fortune  Quotes
Good fortune and talent are both ingredients of success, but like any recipe, they can be substituted with clever alternatives. The one irreplaceable ingredient I’ve found, however, is work.

—Shane Snow

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I dropped my gardening tools, threw my bicycle over a hedge and went in search of fortunes laid beneath the hangman’s noose.

—Fennel Hudson

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The mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.

—Francis Bacon

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Seek happiness now within you. Don’t look anywhere else or for anyone to help bring that happiness to your life. Happiness comes as a reward of battles we win. Happiness will come from the will...

—Sal Martinez

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God’s prayer-line is not a wheel of fortune or lottery for the indolent.

—Bryant McGill

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I only seem negative to the fortunate. That’s because I show the less fortunate that they aren’t less fortunate after all.

—Criss Jami

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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

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Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

—Johann Georg

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Fortune is like glass–the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

—Publilius Syrus

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Fortune, that arrant whore,Ne’er turns the key to th’poor.

—William Shakespeare

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These people [the characters] are throwing dice with fortune. They’re gambling on their future, their liberty, everything.

—Bob Smith

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Remember this: Everybody is less fortunate than you, in some way or another. If you are poor in wealth, be rich in spirit.

—Jarod Kintz

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Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman’s idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman’s idea of the real.

—David Antin

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Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

—Rachel Field

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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No matter how much fame you get, no matter how much money you make, no matter how much admiration you get, nothing feels as monumental as when someone tells you that something you did changed...

—Zack W.

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Too few rejoice at a friend’s good fortune.

—Aeschylus

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The god abandons AntonyWhen at the hour of midnight an invisible choir is suddenly heard passingwith exquisite music, with voices ― Do not lament your fortune that at last subsides, your life’s work that has...

—C.P. Cavafy

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People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority… don’t seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be pitied for their continuous self-torture. They add, change, remove, lay aside, take up,...

—Desiderius Erasmus

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In Madeleine’s face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they...

—Jeffrey Eugenides

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It is in reference to Pope Julius that Machiavelli moralizes on the resemblance between Fortune and women, and concludes that it is the bold rather than the cautious man that will win and hold them...

—W.K. Marriott

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A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is his wife

—Thomas Fuller

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Studies have shown just the domestic market for third-party administration services for just the Fortune 500 to be in excess of $2.5 billion.

—Bill Foley

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The commoditization of IT labor by Fortune 500 companies will foster the growth of union activity, … Price controls and margin controls are forcing providers of contract IT personnel to establish non-benefited classes of employees....

—George Black

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Ainsi dans le faste ostenstatoire d’une dernière cérémonie, le bourgeois, laissant à ses fils un héritage plus riche que celui qu’il a reçu de son père, quite ce monde où il a conu au moins...

—Georges Mongrédien

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Ist nicht eigentliches Ziel von Roman und Museum, unsere Erinnerungen so aufrichtig wie möglich zu erzählen und dadurch unser Glück in das Glück anderer zu verwandeln?

—Orhan Pamuk

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We were contacted by ‘Wheel of Fortune’ to see if we wanted to be part of the program.

—William Atwood

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Oh, I am fortune’s fool!

—William Shakespeare

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May you taste the sweetest pleasures that fortune ere bestowed, and may all your friends remember all the favors you are owed

—Unknown Author

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Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that...

—Helen Keller

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It is only when you look now and see success that you say that it was good fortune. It was not. We lost 250 of our best young men. I felt every one.

—Margaret Thatcher

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We’re really excited that we’ve had the good fortune to pick up a player of his caliber. He’s always been a very capable low-post scorer with a big body, and he’s a big presence out...

—Lawrence Frank

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Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though...

—Sheri S.

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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

—Alexandre Dumas

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He had been haunted his whole life by a mildcase of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome.Langdon’s aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always...

—Dan Brown

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Fortune favors the audacious

—Desiderius Erasmus

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My Fortune Is My Face

—Marc Kudisch

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I regained my soul through literature after those times I’d lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.

—Roman Payne

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We cannot change the past, she thought. How we long to sometimes, trying to work out how horror might have been averted by a fluke of fortune, a kind intercession, wisdom not yet granted.

—Anne M. Chappel

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Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking...

—Dennis Lehane

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Fame & fortune come with a price that fame finds insulting and fortune can’t afford to pay back.

—Dean Cavanagh

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It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship. I came to admire her human grandeur to an ever growing degree. Her strength, her purity...

—Mme. Curie

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When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray

—Publilius Syrus

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Would you like to know your future?If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence —...

—Vera Nazarian

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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

—Anatole France

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

—Francis Bacon

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The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive.

—Jimmy Nail

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Life is about making mistakes. If you don’t take chances, blindfolded and frightened as you are, you’re not really living, are you? Heartache makes you stronger. Misery is the stuff of good poetry. You’re denying...

—Kimberly Karalius

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Fame for the lames, fortune for the brains.

—T.F. Hodge

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If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

—Ausonius

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