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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
View quotes by Walt Whitman

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
View quotes by Ben Jonson

No man's life, liberty or fortune is safe while our legislature is in session.
View quotes by Benjamin Franklin

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. 'Pride and Prejudice'
View quotes by Jane Austen

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
View quotes by Boethius

On Ali G: 'He's made a fortune out of me. If I wasn't here, he would be skint.'
View quotes by Sir Jimmy Saville

Fortune, that favours fools (The Alchemist)
View quotes by Ben Jonson

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
View quotes by Juvenal

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
View quotes by Publilius Syrus

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
View quotes by Sallust

Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
View quotes by Seneca

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.
[The Theory of Moral Sentiments]
View quotes by Adam Smith

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.'
View quotes by Marcus Aurelius

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
View quotes by Honore De Balzac

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
View quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray

Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
View quotes by Sophocles

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
View quotes by Plutarch

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
View quotes by Henry Fielding

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
View quotes by Jim Rohn

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
View quotes by J P Getty



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