Fortune Quotes · Page 51

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

— Michaela Strachan

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

— Wayne LaPierre

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

— Johann Gustav Droysen

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

— Luke Goss

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

— Publilius Syrus

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

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

— Adam Lambert

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

— Adam Gopnik

I highly recommend ClassPass. I spend a fortune on Barry's Bootcamp, Cycle House, SoulCycle, Flywheel, Ballet Barre, SLT Pilates, YogaWorks... I do…

— Jamie Chung

Who does not see that I have taken a road along which I shall go, without stopping and without effort, as long…

— Michel de Montaigne

Don't let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face-and there will be barriers-be external, not internal. Fortune does favor…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for…

— Bertrand Russell

Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune, because all momentous events look very different a year, two…

— Mark Haddon

Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from…

— Marcus Aurelius

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

- So my own sister will not promote me? Speaking of which, weren't you supposed to find me a beautiful future wife…

— Libba Bray

To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference…

— Samuel Johnson

Somebody said you have to love what you do, but that's not necessarily true. What is true is that you have to…

— Jim Rohn

“You are heir to a heavenly fortune, the sole beneficiary of an infinite spiritual trust fund, a proverbial goldmine of sacred abundance…

— Anthon St. Maarten

Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that…

— William Shakespeare

What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious…

— William James

I would always say to anyone, you make choices that are important to you. Don't allow yourself to be exploited by something…

— Patti Smith

When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing…

— Robert Benchley

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

— Richard Barnfield

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

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

Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.

— Anonymous

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness…

— Seneca the Younger

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Even if I make a fortune in films, I want to have a diploma so I don't finish life as a little…

— Alessandra Mussolini

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine…

— Jane Austen

It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

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

— Publilius Syrus

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

— Thomas Carlyle

My greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health

— Kyffin Williams

It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic.

— Hope Solo

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

— William Boyd

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

— Anonymous