#Fortune

"There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor."

"I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets."

"The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it."

"This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive, as feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad."

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune."

"The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way."

"People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world."

"I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all."

"Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet."

"Would you like to know your future?If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise."

"€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff."

"When she tried to seduce me, I got suspicious, thinking she was just after my massive fortune. Then I relaxed, when I remembered I'm poor."

"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."

"Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice."

"Fortune and love favor the brave."

"What if it becomes less about how we look and more about how much we care? What if it becomes less about how much money we earn and more about how much we share our good fortune? Imagine a world where who we are in our hearts is the ultimate status symbol."

"My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune."