Quotes with good-fortune

Quotes 701 till 720 of 2950.

• For me, working out is a form of therapy. It's cathartic for me; it's a good stress reliever. I know that when I go to the gym I am taking care of myself, and I know I'll feel so much better afterwards.

  Bob Harper
  American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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• For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

  James Boswell
  Scottish biographer and diarist (1740 - 1795)
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• For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma.

  Brad Henry
  American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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• For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.

  John Dryden
  English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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• For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.

  John Florio
  Italian-English linguist and translator (also called Giovanni Florio) (1553 - 1625)
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• For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important.

  Bob Schieffer
  American television journalist (1937 - )
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• Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

  Jim Rohn
  American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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• Fortunately, I have always played a lot of sports, so I keep my lungs in good shape. That translates to singing as well.

  Bria Skonberg
  Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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• Fortune and humor govern the world.

  Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer (1613 - 1680)
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• Fortune and love favor the brave.

  Ovid
  Roman poet (43 - 17)
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• Fortune befriends the bold.

  John Dryden
  English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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• Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
  And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

  Juvenal
  Roman poet
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• Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.

  Lord Beaverbrook
   
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• Fortune favors the brave.

  Virgil
  Roman poet (70 - 19)
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• Fortune favors the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur
  French scientist (1822 - 1895)
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• Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

  Marcus Valerius Martial
  Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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• Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

  Isaac D'Israeli
  British scholar and writer (1766 - 1848)
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• Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

  Charles V
  Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria
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• Fortune helps the brave.

  Terence
  Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-education
• commendablest
• condescended
• proprieties
• information
• fortunately

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