Fortune Quotes · Page 58

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news…

— Ted Turner

A successful life does not result from chance; nor is it determined by fate or good fortune, but rather through a succession…

— Ari Kiev

Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

— William Shakespeare

When you see the commitment my parents exhibited... it was not for fame or fortune.

— Yolanda King

I think, because I've been working for a while, I've been working since I was ten, I had the fortune of reading…

— Ellen Page

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

— Jean Cocteau

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Avaj! Šta su sve te sudbine tako gurnute i izmešane? Kuda idu? Zašto su takve? Onaj koji to zna vidi sav mrak.…

— Victor Hugo

Those who have been indulged by fortune and have always thought of calamity as what happens to others, feel a blind incredulous…

— George Eliot

One of the advantages I've had as an interpreter - because I'm not a composer - is I've had the fortune of…

— Jose Jose

I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that…

— Christopher Isherwood

Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not,…

— William Hazlitt

Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes,…

— William Blackstone

There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means…

— Garry Kasparov

Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me ... and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make…

— Max Lerner

“[I]n other words, we should live with due knowledge of the course of things in the world. For whenever a man in…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think…

— Jane Austen

The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing…

— James Madison

Day, night, late, early, At home, abroad, alone, in company, Waking or sleeping, still my care hath been To have her match'd;…

— William Shakespeare

Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess…

— Swami Vivekananda

The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough.…

— Charles Dickens

When a jealous person sees signs of other people's success and good fortune, his heart is pierced with envy. But someone who…

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

I am not part of that earlier Australian generation who set off on a deliberate search for fame and fortune in distant…

— Geraldine Brooks

Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou…

— William Shakespeare

It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune…

— Seneca the Younger

Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.

— Jim Rohn

In order to have a change of fortune at the last minute, you have to take your fortune to the last minute.

— Terry Pratchett

Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.

— Sophia Loren

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.

— Evan Esar

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.

— Washington Irving

Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes.

— Edward Young

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.

— Ron Suskind

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

— Victor Hugo

“Conventional wisdom may not be wise. Good fortune and bad luck do not exist. Freedom of choice is predetermined. Don’t believe anything…

— L. Anthony

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

— Steven Pressfield

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

— Thomas Day

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, hed make a fortune.

— Anonymous

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

— George Matthew Adams