Fortune Quotes
- Page 5There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.
Dante Hall
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
Thomas W. Higginson
Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.
John Tesh
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.
Wilson Mizner
From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
Ferdinand Lassalle
I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.
John Denver
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Miguel de Cervantes
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
Taylor Caldwell
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
Plautus
When someone succeeded in quickly making a lot of money in America, people said he had made his fortune.
Julius Streicher
The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
J. Paul Getty
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare
Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday.
Jamal Lewis
You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
Anita Baker
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Benjamin Disraeli