Fortune Quotes · Page 60

Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.

— Francois Rabelais

Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good…

— Max Walker

Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune.

— Laozi

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Fortune and fame are pursued by some, but many just want to be valued and validated.”

— Faydra D. Fields

People think you earn a fortune in TV, but that's not always the case, especially when you're working as a children's presenter.

— Helen Skelton

... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps…

— Bernard Malamud

Fortune, honour, beauty, youth, Are but blossoms dying; Wanton pleasures, doting love, Are but shadows flying.

— Thomas Campion

A vast industry of stockbrokers, financial planners, and investment advisers skims a fortune for themselves off the top in exchange for passing…

— Michael Lewis

Historically, individuals possessed of the confidence that privilege and good fortune bestow have often proved conspicuous reformers: think only of Franklin D.…

— Linda Colley

I'm a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the…

— Richard MacDonald

With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and…

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him…

— Anonymous

“What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door…

— Anthony Liccione

“But I can only pray ardently that Fortune walks with you, that you discover hitherto unimagined strength in yourself and encounter unexpected…

— Sherry Thomas

If you help others with sincere motivation and sincere concern, that will bring you more fortune, more friends, more smiles, and more…

— Dalai Lama

When you delve deep enough, you find that practically every great fortune and great enterprise in America have sprung from the courageous…

— B. C. Forbes

Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of…

— Albert Schweitzer

A friend of mine urged me to see my pain as an opportunity. And since the same psychic that contacted Dion Fortune…

— Heidi Julavits

Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that…

— Marcus Aurelius

Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful." Clara said. "Among the wealthy it's the rare skins and furs sold on the black…

— Kristin Cashore

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

— Edward Gibbon

Bargains are the holy grail of the true stockpicker. The fact that 10 to 30 percent of our net worth is lost…

— Peter Lynch

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

Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

— Isaac Barrow

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is…

— Margaret Cavendish

Being a star comes with not just fame and fortune, but with awareness and responsibility.

— Joanna Krupa

You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful.

— Martial

Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are…

— Anonymous

To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!

— Jean de la Bruyere

The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.

— Sydney Carter

Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the…

— Pierre Charron

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

— Anonymous

“So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.”

— Paul Bamikole

Had I pursued a film career in Los Angeles, I'm not sure I would have had the fortune that I've had.

— Michael Stuhlbarg

Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.

— Stella Young

As Donald Trump's fortunes continue to slide, he's increasingly dragging the fortunes of senate republican's weapon.

— Chris Hayes

“You can be happy for someone else's good fortune but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.”

— Jodi Picoult

When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?

— Idries Shah

However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all…

— Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt