Fortune Quotes · Page 52

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

— Wilson Mizner

Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.

— Horace

This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.

— James Thurber

Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and…

— Aristotle

“When you start exercising choices, as against embracing opportunities, you become your own God, leaving precious little in the hands of Almighty!”

— Sandeep Sahajpal

The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life.

— Donald Grant Mitchell

Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

— Honore de Balzac

With a modest amount of looks and talent, and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes…

— Robert Vaughn

People should remain unaffected by what others may say. A true man is one who overcomes the ups and downs of life…

— Sathya Sai Baba

There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in…

— Tacitus

Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some say ravens point travelers in the right direction, some say a single raven is a sight of good fortune to come,…

— Lucas Scott

What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with…

— James Cook

Writers are always envious, mean-minded, filled with rage and envyat other's good fortune. There is nothing like the failure of a close…

— Peter Carey

Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good…

— Michael Drayton

If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a…

— Plutarch

Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only…

— Aristotle

Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that…

— Alex Haley

“At the end of the street was a large glass box with a female mannequin inside it, dressed as a gypsy fortune…

— Neil Gaiman

This is one of the take-home messages for me: we just walk around with this narrative in America that everybody wants to…

— Jeanne Marie Laskas

in that small [time] most greatly lived this star of England: Fortune made his sword, By which the world's best garden he…

— William Shakespeare

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of…

— Edward Gibbon

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

— Seneca the Younger

That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and…

— Mike Tyson

All other goods by Fortune's hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven.

— Alexander Pope

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

— Ovid

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling…

— Anthony Trollope

If the loss of your fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.

— Elizabeth Prentiss

O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!

— Elizabeth I

Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I dont have to face him on…

— Jamal Lewis

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.

— Zig Ziglar

I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from…

— Plautus

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing.…

— Chris Cornell

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld