Fortune Quotes · Page 43

When I did 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as…

— Rory Bremner

The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Too bad I can't afford to patent it. I can make a fortune. But again,I have a fortune. -Batman, Year One comic.”

— Frank Miller

That furniture cost me a fortune! It's designer furniture." "Designed by whom ? Darth Vader ? The Hitler Youth ?

— Jennifer Crusie

So many of us invest a fortune making ourselves look good to the world, yet inside we are falling apart. It's time…

— Iyanla Vanzant

Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our…

— Nadia Scrieva

Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's…

— John Tesh

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and…

— Charles Simmons

We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only…

— Seneca the Younger

Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death,…

— Sophocles

Of course none of those men was suitable. Half were after your fortune, and as for the other half—well, you would have…

— Julia Quinn

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for…

— Marcus Aurelius

The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally…

— Tucker Carlson

If you think that material success will bring you happiness, relationships, people, places, things, fame, fortune, you definitely should not practice tantra.

— Frederick Lenz

Lucky people generate their own good fortune via four basic principles. They are skilled at creating their own chance opportunities, make lucky…

— Richard Wiseman

What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself…

— B. C. Forbes

We are more put off by people who parade their dignity than by people who show off their wardrobes. When people have…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Over the years, I've interviewed the victims, the guilty, the famous, the important, and the ordinary people affected by tragedy or good…

— Fiona Barton

I never went into business just to make money - but I found that if I have fun, the money will come.…

— Richard Branson

When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than…

— Samuel Johnson

But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

— John Dryden

I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.

— Orlando Bloom

There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

I think that I have a seriousness of purpose, a lot of support, and a healthy amount of good fortune.

— Sean Astin

Blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound…

— William Shakespeare

“Simple life is always good. Fortune should not be created on other's money.”

— Ramesh Lohia

My father insisted that each of us have a career. His family were refugees and he understood the vicissitudes of fortune.

— Lady Colin Campbell

True friends share genuine closeness and remain friends irrespective of fluctuating fortunes.

— Dalai Lama

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

— Edward Gibbon

Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]

— Horace

“Chiefly, the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands, so why to look for excuses around.”

— Anonymous

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

— Taylor Caldwell

I went to America not for fame or fortune but to be able to communicate with the biggest audience.

— Donovan

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape,…

— Plato

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

— Thomas Carlyle

I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children.

— Demi Moore