Fortune Quotes - page 3

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading. (Rufus Choate)
One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days, as to fortune or fame. View quote
Willa Cather
We need greater virtues to sustain good fortune than bad. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune. View quote
Thomas Gray
Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away. View quote
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. View quote
Henry Fielding
It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune for though she is blind, she is not invisible. View quote
Francis Bacon
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. View quote
Francis Bacon
Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin it. View quote
Tupac Shakur
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. (Horace)
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted. View quote
Sophocles
Let every man in mankind's frailty consider his last day; and let none presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain. View quote
Sophocles
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground. View quote
Mark Twain
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important. View quote
Barry Gibb
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. View quote
Suzanne Curchod
Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case. View quote
Emmeline Pankhurst
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. View quote
Patty Duke
I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there. View quote
Birch Bayh
If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: "The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,” I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie. (Antonin Scalia)
No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants. View quote
Jean-Paul Marat
There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk "his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor" on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. View quote
William James
My first contact with game theory was a popular article in Fortune Magazine which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter and when I studied mathematics I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it. View quote
Reinhard Selten
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