Fortune Quotes

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.

President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.

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

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep.

The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I'm blessed, and aware that it isn't going to last forever.

Through 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.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

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.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

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.

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.

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.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

I couldn't lie to get myself fame and fortune.