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Fortune Quotes
"Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune."
94
"Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left."
68
"Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear."
67
"It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training."
63
"It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task."
62
"I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own."
61
"Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not."
56
"Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past."
56
"A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind."
55
"And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it."
53
"Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others."
50
"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."
49
"Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune."
47
"I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves."
45
"Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken."
44
"Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders."
43
"The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in."
43
"One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune."
42
"I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!"
42
"The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some."
41
"No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing."
39
"The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed."
39
"Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune."
39
"A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad."
39
"Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites."
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