Fortune Quotes

Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.

For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.

By working one can bend fortune. She is fond of crafty men.

It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.

What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?

What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us!

Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.

Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth. [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae, Fortuna non mutat genus.]

Outward success alienates a man from himself.

That furniture cost me a fortune! It's designer furniture." "Designed by whom ? Darth Vader ? The Hitler Youth ?

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

Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.

Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.

When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald.

Briggsy's performances down the years have been pure magic. If they could bottle his ability and sell if at drama schools they'd make a fortune.

One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.

Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune.

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune.

The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy.

Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet

Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.

No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble about.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Honesty, by evil fortune tried, Finds in adversity the seed of praise.

And anyway, considering that her mother dies and her boyfriend's spending a small fortune to get high off someone else's bad breath, I'd say Sophie's next in line for therapy.

Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

The fortune of war is always doubtful.

I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.

I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive.

If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.

One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.

As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.

Oh, I am fortune's fool!

Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number?

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

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.

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

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

Most people who do have the instincts will never recognize that they do, because they don't have the courage or the good fortune to discover their potential.

I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.

May good fortune be your constant companion.