Best 584 quotes in «fortune quotes» category

I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.

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

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

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 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 a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

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.

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

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

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

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 not manly to turn one's back on fortune.

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

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

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

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

It's O.K. to accept good fortune.

... it was as if there were always some good fortune with me that would keep me from going hungry. I knew I would never die of hunger.

I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to.

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.

I've had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals.

I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.

I've never had good fortune with sequels. Everyone says this time is going to be better. And then I've done them and they've just been not - they weren't better.

I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.

I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes.

I watch 'Jeopardy!' every night and 'Wheel of Fortune' follows. And every time I'm like, 'Whoa, it's still on! This is still happening!'

Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

It's funny, but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never know when it will befall you.

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and whatever days fortune will give, count them as profit.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.

Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.

Manners make often fortunes.

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.