Best 584 quotes in «fortune quotes» category

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.

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

He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.

His own character is the arbiter of every ones fortune.

His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.

History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.

Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

How do you deserve a fortune? Render fortunes of service.

How do you make a small fortune in the wine business? Start with a large fortune and buy a winery.

Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.

How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!

How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!

I actually had the good fortune to work with Nick Hoult on Mad Max in Africa, so we became really fast friends.

If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.

I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

I do not seek good fortune - I am good fortune!

I am convinced that you don't need to spend a fortune to look like a million.

I change my direction, I can't even help it. It's sort of like the fortune and misfortune of being a rapper.

I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.

I don't envy young Brits crossing the Atlantic to make their fortunes today.

If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune, we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.

I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children.

If fortune torments me, hope contents me.

If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.

If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least one reason for this good fortune, then you still have work to do.

If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.

If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable and precious in your life and set out to find it. The objects you valued defined you.

I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.

I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

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

I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga.

I hardly know a sight that raises one's indignation more than that of an enlarged soul joined to a contracted fortune; unless it be that so much more common one, of a contracted soul joined to an enlarged fortune.

I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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