Fortune Quotes · Page 45

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

— Juvenal

Once I opened up a fortune cookie and inside was the guy's cheque next to me I said hey buddy I got…

— Rodney Dangerfield

“The job required the luxurious useless indoor fortitude it has always been my fortune to enjoy.”

— Gary Lutz

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

— Sheryl Sandberg

I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive.

— Thom Yorke

[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?

— Chinua Achebe

Most Americans don't know enough about basic economics to fill out one fortune cookie.

— Neal Boortz

The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that…

— Aristotle

I've been lucky. I don't for a minute take for granted the good fortune I have had. You don't like to get…

— Tony Curran

At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third…

— Amar Bose

I had the good fortune to begin my legal career as a law clerk for a judge who really epitomized open-mindedness and…

— Samuel Alito

When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Sometimes, it’s the scary things in life that are the most worthwhile.” I told him. I’m pretty sure I’d read that in…

— Cora Carmack

I am well aware of my good fortune, and I only hope to diversify so I can do what I'm already doing…

— Tituss Burgess

When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Feminism wasn’t supposed to make us miserable. It was supposed to make us free; to give women the power to shape their…

— Debora Spar

A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own…

— Francis Bacon

What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to…

— François-René de Chateaubriand

Most of America's leading entrepreneurs are bound to the masts of their fortunes. They are allowed to keep their wealth only as…

— George Gilder

Where is the reward of virtue? and what recompense has nature provided for such important sacrifices as those of life and fortune,…

— David Hume

We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch…

— Samuel Johnson

For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance…

— Jean Giono

There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel…

— Madame de Stael

“the Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune.”

— Drew Karpyshyn

Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.

— William Shakespeare

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

— Boethius

Even those with unspendable fortunes only have one mind, one mouth, two ears, two eyes and one pleasure station. There's only so…

— Tibor Fischer

I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the…

— Saint Patrick

Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.

— Ihara Saikaku

Philosophy not only dissipates our anxieties, but it also arms us against the buffets of fortune.

— Vikrant Parsai

Lovers, like dying men, may well At first disorder'd be, Since none alive can truly tell What Fortune they must see.

— Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet

Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.

— Ovid

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

— Jonathan Swift

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

— Hector Elizondo

If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.

— George Lucas

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is,…

— Jim Hightower

We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.

— Thomas Jefferson

Illiteracy, both in words and numbers, is the foundation of financial struggle.

— Salaudeen Babatunde

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

— Sarah McLachlan