Top 1200 Good Fortune Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I left school when I was 14 to go into Danish films. When I was 17, I went to Paris to make my fortune.

Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

You fellows ever thought of hiring out as a Christmas lights crew? You’d make a fortune.

Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

I am good. I live good. I think good. I don't have to feel good to be good, I take my goodness wherever I go.

I'd like to believe that I'm a good son, good brother, good uncle, good friend and a good human being.

If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.

I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic.

Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

God's promises are not fortune cookies. We do not use them in order to get a spiritual "fix" for the day.

It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how.

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

I've got good jiu-jitsu skills, good wrestling, good ground and pound, good power on my feet, good strikes.

Men of warm imaginations and towering thoughts are apt to overlook the goods of fortune which are near them, for something that glitters in the sight at a distance; to neglect solid and substantial happiness for what is showy and superficial; and to contemn that good which lies within their reach, for that which they are not capable of attaining. Hope calculates its schemes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin, and dishonour.

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

Sharon Stone has made a fortune from her movies, so who says you can't get something for nothing?

When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald.

Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.

Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.

My goal has always been longevity. Not fame and fortune, just get a job and keep it.

All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.

But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

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In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.

I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

Nothing will stifle your human evolution more than fame and fortune.

A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good, and the people are good, And we 're all good fellows together.

I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.

Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.

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

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

Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.

When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one's children. That distorts their life situation.

To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!

Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

I know that I can cook well on a low budget so I can't really justify spending a fortune on food.

The realms of good fortune and calamity in human life are all made of thoughts and imaginings. Therefore Buddhists say that the burning of desire for gain is itself a pit of fire, while drowning in greedy love is itself a bitter sea. The moment thoughts are pure, fierce flames become a pond; the moment you become aware, the boat has arrived on the further shore. If your thoughts vary at all, your world will immediately differ, so can we not be careful?

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

Most Americans don't know enough about basic economics to fill out one fortune cookie.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.

Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.

I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

You attain aptness by judging while in good shape and in a good situation (good light, good distance, etc.), through the exercise of good barn-sorting epistemic competence.