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I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.
It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.
I have had the fortune of seeing very glamorous and beautiful woman close up and I have seen their fears and insecurity.
I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.
I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
I understand reversal of fortune; that usually has come through my own hand, but you know, you live life on life's terms.
I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.
We've had the good fortune of performing to live music a few times in our career and it always creates a different dynamic.
Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.
True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer.
There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.
Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.
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.
I had the good fortune to be in some movies when I was younger that, for whatever reason, people identified with or related with.
Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.
Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening. . . . Come up. I'll tell your fortune. . . . Ah, you can be had.
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 come anyway.
Our freedom, our prosperity and our security depend on a proper respect for the fortune of our neighbours, allies and old friends.
To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.
Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.
People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
The things you want professionally are opportunities. And through my good fortune that's what's happened. Opportunity has come to me.
I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to.
Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.
... it was as if there were always some good fortune with me that would keep me from going hungry. I knew I would never die of hunger.
I look at all these wonderful actors who are out of work, and I don't know what accounts for my good fortune, but I'm grateful for it.
We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Hyeon means sunshine. Seo means good fortune. I chose it so that I would live my life in light and warmth and not return to the shadow.
The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune!
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.
Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune is exactly the same.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
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.