Short Fortune Quotes

#1. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

Ryan Ross

#2. Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.

Seneca The Younger

#3. In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, his fame doubtful. In short, all that is body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapors.

Marcus Aurelius

#4. I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.

Srikumar Rao

#5. Your unhappiness is not due to your want of a fortune or high position or fame or sufficient vitamins. It is due not to a want of something outside of you, but to a want of something inside you. You were made for perfect happiness. No wonder everything short of God disappoints you.

Fulton J. Sheen

#6. The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued you'll always fancy yourself to be short of the things you need to the extent to which you lag behind what others have.

Seneca.

#8. I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there weren't too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.

Anne Beatts

#9. Life is divided into three periods, past, present and future. Of these, the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain. For this last is the one over which Fortune has lost her power, which cannot be brought back to anyone's control.

Seneca.