Top 1200 Good Fortune Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.

When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

I made my fortune by being able to spot a certain kind of man.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.

Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.

The best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a big one.

Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.

There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.

While fortune lasts you will see your friend's face.

The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

So use all that is called fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all and lose all, as her wheel rolls... A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.

There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs.

Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one of the greatest writers ever, is Mark Twain. Yes, yes, yes. And Whitman, from whom the whole of 20th-century poetry sprung up. Whitman was the origin of things, someone with a completely different outlook. But I think that he's the father of the new wave in the world's poetry which to this very day is hitting the shore.

If I had the good fortune of having the ability to influence people all over the world every time I spoke, I would do my best to make sure people understood why the United States of America is special, and then I would suggest that everybody who wants to come here, "I don't blame you, fine and dandy, there's a legal mechanism for this. We're not denying people the right to come to our country. There's a legal way to do it." That's another thing people forget.

When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.

Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.

the Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune.

A man can hardly be said to have made a fortune if he does not know how to enjoy it.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.

Honesty, by evil fortune tried, Finds in adversity the seed of praise.

The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.

Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

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

We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.

There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

You will never win fame and fortune unless you invent big ideas.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.

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

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world.

Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.

Unless you are a lawyer or Fortune 500 CEO, carrying a briefcase is, well, nerdy.

Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune.

Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.

A gimmick would be something you'd do to attract attention or to bring fame and fortune.

Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.

That's a good question. I think there should be many other women CEO s. It feels natural to be a CEO of WellPoint, and part of the reason may be that women may be drawn to healthcare as a profession. Women make 70 percent of all healthcare decisions. Women are currently available-ready, willing, and able-to be CEOs of major Fortune 50 or 500 companies. And I expect them to emerge as such over the days, weeks, and months ahead.

Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.

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

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.

My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.

The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.