Fortune Quotes · Page 59

I just feel fortune just to have been lucky enough, and worked hard enough, and blessed.

— Kid Rock

Having had breast cancer has made me appreciate my great good fortune. It sounds so corny but I really do count my…

— Michaela Strachan

Bloomberg believes his money can buy anything - even the liberty of individual Americans. After all, his personal fortune bought him public…

— Wayne LaPierre

The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No matter how much money, fame, and fortune you have, it doesn't mean sh** if it's not connected with love.

— Adam Lambert

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

— Publilius Syrus

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

— Johann Gustav Droysen

My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.

— Luke Goss

I've had the good fortune of having a long and varied career. Looking back, some might think things have been plain sailing…

— Vera Lynn

I'd sort of acquired somewhat more mature perspective on what my career is and I don't...not anymore...consider fame and fortune my career.…

— Christoph Waltz

A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in…

— Walter Pater

“Allowing yourself to be a conduit for opportunity requires a brand new outlook on life. Lady fortune cannot enter a locked door,…

— Chris Murray

Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second,…

— The Talmud

A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful,…

— Lord Chesterfield

Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles;…

— Seneca the Younger

I do consider myself a postfeminist. I just want women to have choices - they can be CEOs of Fortune 500 companies,…

— Meghan McCain

It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should…

— Plutarch

“The rich, noisy city, fat with food and drink, is a spent thing; it's chief concern is its digestion and its little…

— Willa Cather

It was a very big gamble. I lost my job in France, I received a job in which was extremely uncertain, how…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled…

— Aristotle

Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath…

— Paul Verlaine

I had the good fortune to direct my first professional production with one of my Dad's masterpieces, The Man Who Came To…

— Chris Hart

“It has often given my pleasure to observe, that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one…

— John Jay

Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take…

— Seneca the Younger

Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.

— Anonymous

Briggsy's performances down the years have been pure magic. If they could bottle his ability and sell if at drama schools they'd…

— Lynne Perrie

Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy.

— Richard Barnfield

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

— Adam Gopnik

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness…

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Publilius Syrus

My greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health

— Kyffin Williams

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

— Thomas Carlyle

Even if I make a fortune in films, I want to have a diploma so I don't finish life as a little…

— Alessandra Mussolini

It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine…

— Jane Austen

I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.

— Pierce Brosnan

It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring. [Lat., Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam vehat aetas.]

— Lucretius

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

— Stuart Wilde