Fortune Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.