Pastoral Resources

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some of the greatest black artists, dancers, singers, musicians, and actors of our time.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Fortune, that favors fools.

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

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.

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

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.

I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.

From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.

Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday.

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

The result showed that fortune helps the brave.