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Quotes About Fortune

When I began in Ring of Honor, I was very fortunate to get on shows and get looked at and get the experience. I was working with a ton of guys who had more experience than me at the time, like AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels.
~ Matt Sydal
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
~ Horace
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
~ Marcus Valerius Martial
A huge segment of the country has always felt overtaxed. In 1938, when taxes were roughly 17% of income, a 'Fortune' survey found that nearly half of all Americans thought they paid too much relative to what they got in return.
~ Nina Easton
I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.
~ Muhammad Ali
For me, money is a tool.
~ Michelle Phan
I've learned over the years that you're going to be most successful at the things you're most excited to do. Every artist has a special set of tools. When you really use those tools, and you make yourself feel really good about the product you create, I think you'll find an audience for it. I've been very fortunate in that respect.
~ Steve Vai
I have a friend - not a dwarf - who's an alchemist of sorts. He concocted a men's cologne... He gave me a bottle as a gift. I was thinking we should totally put this on the market. You know how Jessica Simpson and Beyonce have signature perfumes and make a mint? I'm thinking this cologne could be my ticket to fortune.
~ Peter Dinklage
I make my own chances- Wedge Antilles
~ Sean Williams
And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.
~ Sebastian Faulks
Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
~ Seneca
Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
~ Seneca
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
~ Seneca
Luck never made a man wise.
~ Seneca
No man was ever wise by chance.
~ Seneca
Delay not swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
~ Seneca
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
~ Seneca
You've got it made. How the words sing a swift jazz poem of success, hi-fi, the best chicks (or guys), your name in lights, pot to burn, jets to L.A. and London, bread in the bank, baby, a fortress built around your ego like a magic suit of armor!
~ Seymour Krim
Those who appear to be "luckier" than the rest have actually only gotten better mental programming to begin with, or have learned how to erase their old negative programming and replace it with something better. ?In
~ Shad Helmstetter
I'm already the most fortunate girl in the world, so I have zero expectations for what the future will bring.
~ Shailene Woodley
Every blessing is a curse in disguise.
~ Shashank Khubchandani
I just always loved to perform and I was lucky enough to be in front of the right people at the right time!
~ Renee Olstead
I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.
~ Richard Masur
I've been very fortunate because many of the teachers I had were exceptional. But I didn't realize that at the time that all teachers were not alike.
~ Frederick Lenz