324 Fortune Quotes for You to Enjoy

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Francis Bacon

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Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it! Patrick Duffy

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Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. Publilius Syrus

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Fortune sides with him who dares. Virgil

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Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. William Shakespeare

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The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. Francis Bacon

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. Jonathan Swift

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I implore you to see the universe as a warm and supportive one because you'll look for evidence to support this view. When you anticipate that the universe is friendly, you see friendly people. You look for circumstances to work in your favor. You anticipate good fortune flowing into your life. Wayne Dyer

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. Ambrose Bierce

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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune. Daniel Boone

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A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come. Denis Waitley

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It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly. Julius Caesar

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I believe in America. America's made my fortune. Mario Puzo

Made Believe America Fortune

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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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing. Sophocles

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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. Torquato Tasso

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Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune. Aeschylus

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

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Diligence is the mother of good fortune. Benjamin Disraeli

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I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then. Cameron Mackintosh

Me First Lost Living Think Worst Worst Thing Would Having Absolute Could Had Instead Opened Over Know Been Years Hit Scrape Done Happened Which Then Show Fortune Thing

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