Top 1200 Good Fortune Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Neither the gifts nor the blows of fortune equal those of nature.

And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought the whalers and other entrepreneurs north? Or is it, rather, to have a good family life and to be imbued with a far-reaching and intimate knowledge of one’s homeland, which is what the Tununirmiut told the whalers at Pond’s Bay wealth was? Is it to retain a capacity for awe and astonishment in our lives, to continue to hunger after what is genuine and worthy? Is it to live at moral peace with the universe?

Fortune smiles on some, and lets the others go free.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often hear one hen remark to another, "Under the guidance of our leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days" or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim, "thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water tastes!".

Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.

I've had the great fortune of working with incredible people on many shows.

All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.

Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune.

Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all.

The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.

If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.

The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.

By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience.

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

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

Giving away a fortune is taking Christianity too far.

Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.

Nothing but pain, stuck in this game, searching for fortune and fame.

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.

Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything.

Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!

Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home.

People annoy me when they say, 'Oh, you made a fortune.'

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

We live in this irreparably broken world, and I don't wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not that we refuse to relinquish hope as a species. The amazing thing is that we're right to hold on to hope. The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy. ... Obviously not all stories end happily. We don't always have good fortune, but hope gives us, as a species and as individuals, what we otherwise wouldn't have: A chance.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

It's very passe to think women want to spend a fortune on clothes.

Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

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

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.

It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head.

It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune.

To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share in all honorable curiosities, to be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness-these are the gifts of fortune which money cannot buy, and without which money can buy nothing.

People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to...rather than detracts from...our lives.

A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.

The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.

If we knew enough, fortune would turn out to be nature.

England is a lucky country for me, and fortune comes only with hard work.

Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.

I've gained fans, fame, fortune, but I don't feel different. Am I supposed to?