Top 1200 Good Fortune Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I went to America not for fame or fortune but to be able to communicate with the biggest audience.

Why is it that sometimes our prayers seem not to be answered? This is a manifestation of the Buddha's wisdom, so that we can deepen our prayers, become stronger people, live more profound lives and secure deeper, more lasting good fortune. If our slightest prayer was answered immediately, we would become lazy and degenerate. And we could not hope to build a life of great dignity and substance.

there is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.

Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.

Everyone from the pope to some hobo thinks, "I'm a human being. What am I doing here?" You can't get carried away with fame and fortune and all that. It's all nonsense. The whole pop-star side of it is all fun and good, but you don't get anywhere without putting in the hours. I get so fulfilled when we play a song live that we spent hours working on. It's all cool. Fame is something to have fun with, but you shouldn't take it too seriously because it is bollocks.

Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.

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

Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.

Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.

To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.

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

Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.

Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.

Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

This is the entire spiritual life, Ananda, that is, good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship. When a monk has a good friend, a good companion, a good comrade, it is to be expected that he will develop and cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path.

Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.

Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

Being a star comes with not just fame and fortune, but with awareness and responsibility.

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

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

I made a fortune getting out too soon.

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.

Stay close by the door, if you desire all beauty And leave aside sleep, if you wish to arrive And make of the spirit your first place of account To the beloved, whose lights shine as from gold All of them worship out of fear of the fire � And consider deliverance abundant good fortune - Or, so they may dwell in the gardens, and reach To the meadows of paradise, and there drink from its rivers Of gardens or fire I have no opinion I seek no exchange for my dearest love

My life has been so fortunate. I have had most extraordinary good fortune in my life. I sort of put it into three categories, the three major stepping stones. One being London Hippodrome theater stage debut when I was 12, when it started my career. The second being going to Broadway. And the third going to Hollywood. Each one of those happened under the most extraordinary circumstances.

I'd like to have the fortune, but I don't care too much about the fame.

Next to being right in this world, the best of all things is to be clearly and definitely wrong, because you will come out somewhere. If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere; but if you are absolutely and thoroughly and persistently wrong, you must, some of these days, have the extreme good fortune of knocking your head against a fact, and that sets you all straight again.

I had the great fortune to work with John Houseman at Juilliard.

Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number?

The ego seeks fame and fortune. Humility doesn't seek at all - it accepts.

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.

By working one can bend fortune. She is fond of crafty men.

Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.

Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]

Fortune confounds the wise, And when they least expect it turns the dice.

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it

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

A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.

A fortune-teller said my future lay in comedy.

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.

In the quest for fortune and fame...don't forget about the simple things.

Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.

The truth is, the 'Fortune' 500 prefer lobbying to campaigning.

We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.

Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children: but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race.

ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.