Fortune Quotes · Page 44

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

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

— Publilius Syrus

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

— Luke Goss

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

— Johann Gustav Droysen

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

— Adam Lambert

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

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

— Publilius Syrus

Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts…

— Aristotle

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gordon Gekko was right: greed is good. Because, the potty-trained Republicans have now stepped forward - like the Koch brothers - to…

— Bill Maher

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure…

— Euripides

It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes.…

— Michel de Montaigne

He that loves a book will never want a [close] friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study,…

— Isaac Barrow

I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded…

— Hannibal

But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Behind every liberal philanthropist fortune is a huge capitalist score. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett can afford now to be liberal -…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“This dog won’t hunt. This horse won’t jump. You get the general drift. However, he keeps on trying, but the fire won’t…

— Ludovico Ariosto

Why is it that sometimes our prayers seem not to be answered? This is a manifestation of the Buddha's wisdom, so that…

— Daisaku Ikeda

Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in…

— Jack Kornfield

For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds…

— Carrie Chapman Catt

Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in…

— Jose Saramago

Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He…

— Daniel Finkelstein

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

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

— Richard Barnfield

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

— Adam Gopnik

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

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

— Kid Rock

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

— Wayne LaPierre

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

— Michaela Strachan

“Ignorance actually limits God from intervening in the misfortunes of our personal lives and that of our society.”

— Sunday Adelaja

All those who slight me to my face, Or do me any other evil, Even if they blame or slander me, May…

— Shantideva

More effective than giving away half my fortune before I die is finding a way to help people have a good-paying job.

— William E. Conway, Jr

Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.

— Sallust

I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm…

— Leonard Maltin

The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.

— Marquis de Lafayette

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

— Karl Kraus

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder…

— Anonymous