Fortune Quotes

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.

As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.

I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.

The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

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.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.

I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.

It's O.K. to accept good fortune.

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.

Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.