Fortune Quotes · Page 55

He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down…

— Anonymous

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

— Nikos Kazantzakis

I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING…

— Meg Cabot

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that…

— Rachel Field

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

— Agnes Repplier

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

— Mario Puzo

Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are…

— Pietro Metastasio

... it was as if there were always some good fortune with me that would keep me from going hungry. I knew…

— Micaela Flores Amaya

[With] closet indexing…you're paying a manager a fortune and he has 85% of his assets invested parallel to the indexes. If you…

— Charlie Munger

America spends a fortune on drugs: more per person than any other nation on earth, even though Americans are no healthier than…

— Robert Reich

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers,…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Hardships forge and polish our lives, so that eventually they shine with brilliant fortune and benefit. If left in its raw, unpolished…

— Senora Roy

Show me a first-generatio n fortune and I'll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society's invisible venture capitalist,…

— William H. Gates, Sr

I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three…

— James Rebhorn

It is men of desperate fortunes on the one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who go abroad upon…

— Daniel Defoe

“You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness;…

— Roland Barthes

“Ainsi dans le faste ostenstatoire d'une dernière cérémonie, le bourgeois, laissant à ses fils un héritage plus riche que celui qu'il a…

— Georges Mongredien

Ben's Mr. Market allegory may seem out-of-date in today's investment world, in which most professionals and academicians talk of efficient markets, dynamic…

— Warren Buffett

I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now. Hell, I'm blessed to be in any…

— Tom Sizemore

If you are blessed with great fortunes. . . you may love your fate. But your fate never guarantees the security of…

— Anonymous

A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment…

— James Madison

To help us bring benefit to others through our words and actions, it is useful to cultivate an attitude of sympathetic joy…

— Dalai Lama

Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes…

— Louis L'Amour

I really have the good fortune that the actors who work with me on 'The Leftovers' are thoughtful, hard working, open people…

— Carrie Coon

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to…

— Marie Corelli

Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.

— Josh Billings

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

May every man is not the architect of his own fortune; but every man is the architect of his own character.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

A man's ego may swell with fortune but so does his pride which usually comes before a fall.

— Mak_786 Correction By Jacobusmaximus

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

— Luc de Clapiers

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

— William Hazlitt

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

— Propertius

Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So…

— Manolo Blahnik

The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.

— Antoine Rivarol

When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

— John A. Macdonald

My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies…

— Anonymous

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

— Jim Fixx

Gay marriage, I am so against it because if all my gay friends get married, it will cost me a fortune in…

— Joan Rivers