Fortune Quotes
- Page 2Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
Horace
Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
Johann Georg Zimmermann
The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.
Sydney Carter
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
Luc de Clapiers
If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.
David Ogilvy
Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.
David Antin
You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.
Donald Sutherland
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
Ted Turner
These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good fortune to witness the light of this auspicious morn.
Nelson A. Miles
I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.
Drew Barrymore
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I remember being told 'Someone's gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing' and thinking 'no way'.
Arthur Baker
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
Maria Edgeworth
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
John Mortimer
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
Bernard Baruch
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
Ovid