Top 1200 Good Fortune Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.

I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.

The slightest force, when it is applied to assist and guide the natural descent of its object, operates with irresistible weight; and Jovian had the good fortune to embrace the religious opinions which were supported by the spirit of the times and the zeal and numbers of the most powerful sect. Under his reign, Christianity obtained an easy and lasting victory; and, as soon as the smile of royal patronage was withdrawn, the genius of Paganism, which had been fondly raised and cherished by the arts of Julian, sunk irrecoverably in the dust.

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

The best advice I can give is to believe in yourself and to create new challenges no matter how far you get. Even if you think you earned it all or if you're considered the best in the world, keep challenging yourself because you're only as good as your last trick in the public's eye. But only do it because you love it. Don't do it because you think it's your ticket to fame or fortune. If that's the motivation and you reach any of those goals, you're not going to keep that passion.

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.

It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

I have had the fortune of seeing very glamorous and beautiful woman close up and I have seen their fears and insecurity.

History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.

Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .

It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.

It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.

There is much to life than fame and fortune. If you are a part of the entertainment industry, please remember it is all temporary.

Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life.

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.

I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me. [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.]

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased if I could announce a motive of lofty purpose. I've been accused of compassion, of altruism, of devotion to Christian, Hebrew, and Muslim ethic, but however desperate I am to claim ownership of a high ideal, I cannot. I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck; the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others, made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.

Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? . . . Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities.

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.

The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.

So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.

Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

Fortune, honour, beauty, youth, Are but blossoms dying; Wanton pleasures, doting love, Are but shadows flying.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing.

All of us, I suspect, imagine that a world exists from which we alone have been excluded; all of us have our noses pressed against the glass. But if we contemplate our own lives, not the phantom life on the other side, we might find things in them to envy-a family that’s intact; a job we like; excellent health (the thing we take for granted and on which all happiness depends). Good fortune is there, however sporadic, however modest, however difficult to achieve. The trick is to recognize it.

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

Perhaps the biggest lesson that I would say is the one to learn is not to let fame and fortune get inside your head.

Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.

Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."