Top 1200 Good Fortune Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

We are many small puppets moved by fate and fortune through strings unseen by us; therefore, if it is so as I think, one has to prepare oneself with a good heart and indifference to accept things coming towards us, because they cannot be avoided, and to oppose them requires a violence that tears our souls too deeply, and it seems that both fortune and men are always busy in affairs for our dislike because the former is blind and the latter only think of their interest.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

I've had the good fortune to play characters that have a role-model thing to them.

I'm not sure whether it's good fortune or bad, but I've died many times on screen.

Reserve some hours daily to examine yourself and fortune; for if you embark yourself in perpetual conversation or recreation, you will certainly shipwreck your mind and fortune.

Balance and good fortune can only come to a person who is balanced and feels fortunate.

The creams I use are not expensive. Nivea is just as good. Why waste a fortune?

No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]

I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.

The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust, something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens.

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.

I look at all these wonderful actors who are out of work, and I don't know what accounts for my good fortune, but I'm grateful for it.

It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.

Good fortune then! To make me blest or cursed'st among men.

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

I have the great good fortune that one of my collaborators in work, Anne Case, is also my collaborator in life.

Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye.

Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.

All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn of all such richness as a voyage across the water, a fair man that loves you, a dark woman that means you harm.

Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.

Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.

I think that I have a seriousness of purpose, a lot of support, and a healthy amount of good fortune.

I've had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals.

The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.

My good fortune was that I was born into a home where Mum and Dad encouraged me to learn the piano.

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.

The author wishes to thank: Good fortune, Godiva chocolates, and Slim-Fast

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.

If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least one reason for this good fortune, then you still have work to do.

Some people have made a fortune by being employed. Jerry Bruckheimer does not own his content. Warner Bros. owns his shows. They are on CBS, and he makes a fortune.

There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.

All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.

Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.

Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

It is my good fortune that I am the first Sikh to be playing lead roles in Hindi films.

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with others. Rejoicing generates good will.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.

I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

I had the good fortune to call George Steinbrenner both partner and friend.

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

I wake up every day, and the family fortune is on the line, and that's a good thing.

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Let not one look of Fortune cast you down; she were not Fortune if she did not frown.

I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.

Italian wines don't have to be expensive to be good. It is absolutely ridiculous that people feel that have to spend a fortune.

See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.

I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.