Best 584 quotes in «fortune quotes» category

I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.

I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.

I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

I'm working full time on my job and part time on my fortune

I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.

I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.

I'm not sure whether it's good fortune or bad, but I've died many times on screen.

In order to have a change of fortune at the last minute, you have to take your fortune to the last minute.

In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is Wheel Of Fortune because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.

In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.

I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.

I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.

I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.

I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.

...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.

Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais): "Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it 'Italy.'

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.

I think, because I've been working for a while, I've been working since I was ten, I had the fortune of reading a lot, a lot of scripts.

It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.

It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.

I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.

I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.

It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.

It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring. [Lat., Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam vehat aetas.]

It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous

It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.

It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.

It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.

It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]

It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.

It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.

It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.

It's amazing how difficult it is for a man to understand something if he's paid a small fortune not to understand it.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.

It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.

It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but from the accidents and catastrophes they dodged. A decent life was the train that hadn’t hit you, the slumlord you hadn’t offended, the malaria you hadn’t caught.