Fortune Quotes

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.

During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

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

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

As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.

I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well.

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

It's very passe to think women want to spend a fortune on clothes.

You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.

It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.