Fortune Quotes · Page 55

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I said some crazy shit to her like: 'what if you and I were just letters?' That be unfortunate we'd have to…

— Lil Wayne

To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.

— Aeschylus

I spoil all my three sisters. I buy them bags and other stuff that cost a fortune because they won't settle for…

— Zayed Khan

Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.

— B. C. Forbes

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

— Bob Dylan

Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy.…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived…

— Seneca the Younger

Businesses will have to lead the charge - demanding uniform, national, predictable rules to govern this transition, so that there is a…

— Van Jones

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job, you can make a living.…

— Jim Rohn

Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven…

— Adolf Hitler

“Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Moreover, a true Christian will not ascribe any prosperity to his own diligence, industry, or good fortune, but he will acknowledge that…

— John Calvin

I hardly know a sight that raises one's indignation more than that of an enlarged soul joined to a contracted fortune; unless…

— Sir Fulke Greville

I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money,…

— Anonymous

We should note it is not illegal for the campaign to pay [Doanld] Trump owned businesses as long as they're charging fair…

— Chris Hayes

If we could know as intimately as we know our more immediate parents the long line of ancestors through whom the family…

— Helen Bosanquet

Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogeneous.…

— Gilberto Gil

You can get what you want. Never sell out. Don't break. Don't weaken. Don't let the kindness of strangers be your salvation,…

— Henry Rollins

People talk about overnight successes, and ultimately, there's a certain amount of, you want to call it luck or fortune or good…

— Damon Lindelof

I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he…

— Barack Obama

How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the…

— Haruki Murakami

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

— Roger L'Estrange

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is…

— Benny Hill

Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.

— William Shakespeare

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I admit to spending a fortune on women, booze and gambling... the rest I spend foolishly.

— Chic Murray

They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its…

— Thomas Jefferson

“We live in a world of fortune and luxury, yet how poor and sad we are at times.”

— Rachel Hauck

Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've…

— Jerry Lewis

The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old…

— Phil Ochs

It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.

— Placido Domingo

Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening. . . . Come up. I'll tell your fortune.…

— Mae West

We've had the good fortune of performing to live music a few times in our career and it always creates a different…

— Tessa Virtue

I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.

— David Attenborough

It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

— Niccolo Machiavelli