Best 584 quotes in «fortune quotes» category

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 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 do not seek good fortune - I am good fortune!

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

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

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 anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I silently smiled at my incessant 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 still follow Chelsea's fortunes.

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.

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

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

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 pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

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