Fortune Quotes · Page 56

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches…

— Thomas Carlyle

If 'Bio-Man' dies, maybe I'll go on and work on something that becomes the next 'Wheel of Fortune.'

— Haim Saban

“It is our duty as believers to bring joy and fortune to the less privileged among us”

— Sunday Adelaja

For me, it [Crimea] is not borders and state territories that matter, but people's fortunes.

— Vladimir Putin

“Misfortune is a stepping stone for genius, the baptismal font of Christians, treasure for the skillful man, an abyss for the feeble.”

— Honore de Balzac

One of the most important of all the causes of great inequality of income is the inheritance of a great fortune by…

— Hugh Dalton

Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]

— Marie Jeanne Riccoboni

He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.

— Jim Davis

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the…

— Francis Bacon

When I read in Fortune magazine that Warren Buffet, the billionaire investor and one of the world's richest men, was investing in…

— David Bach

The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn…

— Libba Bray

Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a…

— John F. Kennedy

Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy, And always blind, and often tipsy; Sometimes for years and years together, She 'll bless you…

— Winthrop Mackworth Praed

The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified…

— Warren Buffett

There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When I left EastEnders, I could have earned an absolute fortune from sexy calendars, shoots for lads' mags, fitness videos and reality…

— Michelle Ryan

The great presidents never forget the principle of the republic and seek to preserve and enhance them – in the long run–…

— George Friedman

So,” Marasi said, “you traded a dead man’s scarf for another dead man’s gun. But…the gun itself belonged to someone dead, so…

— Brandon Sanderson

At the risk of repetition let me say again that my plea is not for immunity to, but for the most unsparing…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Small and mid-sized companies in this country historically have been responsible for creating the overwhelming majority of new jobs in the private…

— Michael Milken

“As long as there is happiness, there will be sadness. As long as there is fortune, there will be misfortune. “…What’s real…

— Miyuki Miyabe

“He had been haunted his whole life by a mild case of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite…

— Dan Brown

“The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

The money that is spent in elections is absolutely unconscionable - even if it's private money. It's true that one's not corrupted…

— Millicent Fenwick

Every man is the architect of his own fortunes, but the neighbors superintend the construction.

— George Ade

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan…

— Herodotus

“Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect…

— George D Boardman

What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found…

— Robbin Crosby

The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Quite often the things that fascinated you from childhood are the very things that will bring you fame and fortune.

— Tassel Daley

Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.

— Claire Tomalin

I started acting when I was 13, so acting has been, with great fortune, my job since I could get a job.

— Carla Gugino

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall,…

— Sallust

Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.

— Amish Tripathi

“... fortune is not in time or place or things; but, good or bad, in the man’s own self for him alone…

— Percy FitzPatrick

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

— Zane Grey

Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?

— Gordon Lightfoot

There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

— Jean de la Bruyere

My friends and family are amazed I've done so well. I was not a model student. No one expected that I'd build…

— John W. Thompson