Fortune Quotes

One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

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

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

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

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and work with some terrific people who have hired me.

Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

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.

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

As it is my good fortune to be American, I live in the only country that as a matter of policy is pro-Israel regardless of party allegiance; Democrats and Republicans equally unite behind the blue-and-white.

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff - something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

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.