Fortune Quotes · Page 5

Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and…

— Bliss Carman

Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions,…

— Anonymous

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

— Plautus

So many people work so hard, to achieve, attain, accumulate and cherish their fortunes. How many of us blissfully fill our days…

— Barbara Rose

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are…

— Arthur Ransome

I was never a Republican, because those gentlemen, distinguished as they are, have only one real interest, and that is the making…

— Samuel J. Tilden

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

— Zane Grey

I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised…

— Jeanette Winterson

He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones…

— Winston Churchill

In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of…

— Christopher Hitchens

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the…

— Horace

Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How you experience your life depends on how you look at it. If you look at it as a constant stream of…

— Neale Donald Walsch

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

— Adam Gopnik

Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality…

— Jean Baptiste Massillon

Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.

— Laozi

Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the…

— William Shenstone

Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot…

— Joanna Baillie

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of…

— Nicolas Chamfort

If you ask me what is the best good fortune in my life, of course I say that I have seen in…

— Joachim Sauer

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

— Maria Edgeworth

That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.

— Publilius Syrus

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

— Shantideva

Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out…

— Charles de Lint

I've had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I'm just so thankful for it. But at the same time I feel…

— Matthew Gray Gubler