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Quotes About Fortune

One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.
~ Alexander Smith
Golf is a game of integrity. And golf is a game of forgiveness. I think the high standards of golf remind people of how lucky they are, or how fortunate they are, to be able to play the game.
~ George W. Bush
Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.
~ William Shenstone
Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.
~ Lady Marguerite Blessington
I've had an exciting life I married for love and got a little money along with it.
~ Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Every dog has its day but it's not every dog that knows when he's having it.
~ Winifred Gordon
All fortune belongs to him who has a contented mind.
~ The Panchatantra
No one is satisfied with his fortune or dissatisfied with his intellect.
~ Unknown
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
~ Euripides
You make your fortune when you create an identity for yourself.
~ Unknown
If you want happiness for an hour take a nap. If you want happiness for a day go fishing. If you want happiness for a year inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime help someone else.
~ Unknown
Change yourself and fortune will change with you.
~ Unknown
Whatever happens, we are the architect of the fortune or misfortune that befall us in life. Stop! Take time to make a critical analysis of yourself and the situation you find yourself. Better to learn from other people's mistake and experiences, rather than becoming a case study to others.
~ Unknown
If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest
~ Simonides
Fame is a fickle food - Upon a shifting plate
~ Emily Dickinson
Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
~ Seneca
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
~ Unknown
Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
~ Bill Watterson
Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.
~ Sholom Aleichem
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you don't like?
~ Jean Cocteau
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.
~ Christopher Isherwood
I walked away exhilarated by my success, because there's nothing like making a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.
~ Marilyn Manson
The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was being born a woman.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Behind every successful fortune there is a crime.
~ Mario Puzo