Fortune Quotes

1539 Fortune quotes by 990 unique authors

I’ve always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like all orphans—to be… — Fernando Pessoa
So,” Marasi said, “you traded a dead man’s scarf for another dead man’s gun. But…the gun itself belonged to someone dead, so by the same… — Brandon Sanderson
This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may… — Robin Hobb
A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else. — Jane Austen
Percy and Reyna occupied matching praeters' chairs on the dais, which made Percy self-conscious. It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bedsheet and a purple… — Rick Riordan
Gifts, like words, carried with them a great deal of power. They bestowed good fortune just as powerfully as they could curse; the could bind… — Alethea Kontis
How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the reality turned out… — Haruki Murakami
Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does. — Giovanni Boccaccio
We’re all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn’t count. It’s when you want so badly to do something wrong—when you’re… — Ken Follett
Kinzie smiled smugly. “You admire our base of operations? Yes, our distribution system is worldwide. It took many years and most of our fortune to… — Rick Riordan
Of course you want someone special to love you. A majority of the people who write to me inquire about how they can get the… — Cheryl Strayed
Go home all you boys who fought with me and help build up the shattered fortunes of our old state — Robert E. Lee
When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and… — William Shakespeare
He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love,… — Baruch Spinoza
Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try. — Sheryl Sandberg
In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not… — Octavia Butler
Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough,… — Terry Pratchett
A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't," Finn replied absently, still looking down at the book. "That's such a… — Amanda Hocking
A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it… — Cheryl Strayed
When the sun sets like fire, I will think of you, when the moon casts its light, I'll remember, too, if a soft rain falls… — Brian Jacques
Behind every successful fortune;There is Crime. — Mario Puzo
What thought or message would you put in a fortune cookie? "Stop reading this. Eat the cookie and live your life. — Veronica Roth
Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it… — Philippa Gregory
Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean. — Napoleon Hill

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