Fortune Quotes · Page 58

Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!

— Anne Frank

Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

— Confucius

Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.

— Horace

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE

— Michelle Moran

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

— Plautus

It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant.…

— William J. Clinton

Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.

— Julius Caesar

I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system…

— Andrew Harvey

The most unusual salesman I ever met is a fellow who made a modest fortune purveying lightning rods. But he suddenly lost…

— Shelley Berman

It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to…

— Oliver Goldsmith

When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with…

— Francois Rabelais

In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were…

— Bill Dedman

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the…

— Robert Greene

It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but…

— Katherine Boo

With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode; But now all smiles, and now again…

— Ovid

“good things that we have in life are on temporary loan, at best, and can be taken away from us in an…

— Alexander McCall Smith

It is also true that the less possible it becomes for a man to acquire a new fortune, the more must the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I have never dreamt of contesting the Church her right to remain faithful to herself, meaning to the commandments that come from…

— Indro Montanelli

Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Under the Roman empire, the labour…

— Edward Gibbon

The important thing is to firmly fix our gaze on our own weaknesses, not run away from them, but to battle them…

— Daisaku Ikeda

We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity,…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

“So if the ultimate felicity of man does not consist in external things which are called the goods of fortune, nor in…

— Thomas Aquinas

A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

So they, who climb to wealth, forget The friends in darker fortunes tried. I copied them--but I regret That I should ape…

— William C. Bryant

Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start…

— William Saroyan

There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in…

— Frank Laubach

God's promises are not fortune cookies. We do not use them in order to get a spiritual "fix" for the day.

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

— Alexander Pope

They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.

— George Eliot

You fellows ever thought of hiring out as a Christmas lights crew? You’d make a fortune.

— Ilona Andrews

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

— Confucius

I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was…

— Kate Moss

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

— Madame de Stael

The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est: Nam timor eventus…

— Ovid

The things you want professionally are opportunities. And through my good fortune that's what's happened. Opportunity has come to me.

— Bryan Cranston

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

— Horace

“Trust me, if you want to complain, you’ll always find plenty to complain about, even when fortune appears to be shining her…

— Elizabeth Gilbert