Fortune Quotes

Dont listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, theyd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut. Follow your instincts. Every once in a while, take a chance.

The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can.

I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.

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

Exceptional results arrive only when exceptional people put in exceptional effort. It never arises by accident or good fortune.

Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall endure?

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

Everything has a price... No matter if it's fortune, fame or your life. I understood later that it's all about paper, Everything has a fee in the land of the free.

With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode; But now all smiles, and now again all frowns, She's constant only in inconstancy.

Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.

Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least one reason for this good fortune, then you still have work to do.

Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.

Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun.

For me, it's good fortune to be between two cultures. Growing up in Germany taught me a lot. I am a world citizen. Today I can adapt well no matter where I am. Even when it's not always easy.

Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.

It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.

To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.

It's very passe to think women want to spend a fortune on clothes.

Expect the Best, Expect Divine Guidance, Expect your Fortunes to Change, Expect a Miracle!

We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.

Show me a first-generatio n fortune and I'll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society's invisible venture capitalist, the commons.

Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.

You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

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

I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is Wheel Of Fortune because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.

Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.

Wheel of Fortune was an important SAT prep for me.

Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.

Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

Until we do something about wild dogs, kangaroos competing for pasture, your fortunes in life aren't gonna turn around.

To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.

When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.

If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.

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

You will never win fame and fortune unless you invent big ideas.

there is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.

Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.

One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.