Fortune Quotes

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.

Fortune favors the audacious.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Fortune, that favors fools.

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.

The NBA's a Fortune 500 company. That's how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you don't see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."

If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.