Fortune Quotes · Page 58

Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.

— Junot Diaz

Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

— J. Paul Getty

The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.

— John Lyly

“Once upon a time when I knew nothing I wanted fame and fortune. Now I know how little I know, I just…

— Stephen Richards

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

— John Mortimer

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

— Jane Austen

We picked a great marketplace. We were a pioneer in payroll processing for very small companies. And we had the perseverance and…

— Tom Golisano

When my mother was trying to teach me how to make friends when I was a kid, she'd bring girls over to…

— Courtney Love

Women are leaders everywhere you look - from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her…

— Nancy Pelosi

“You're going to have to make your own fortune. You've been given a lot of challenge. No one is going to help…

— Sunshine O'Donnell

Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s…

— James Surowiecki

Might have a couple of kinks to work through," Hale admitted then reached for her hand. As soon as he touched her,…

— Ally Carter

“In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune…

— Diana Wynne Jones

Business and scholarship pass away with the person, but the soul is forever like new. Fame and fortune change with the generations,…

— Zicheng Hong

When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. A successful business owner never stops learning. They educate…

— Jim Rohn

“Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to…

— Lawrence Hargrave

You've taught me that we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain and dull. If we love and allow…

— Dean Koontz

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of…

— Charles Baudelaire

A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No…

— Bodhidharma

Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the…

— Fay Weldon

This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the…

— Robin Hobb

The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the…

— Michelangelo

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of an…

— Julia Quinn

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

— Ulysses S. Grant

Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance.

— Marcus Aurelius

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

— Philip Sidney

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

— Dick Gephardt

The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it…

— Demosthenes

Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of…

— William Ralph Inge

Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness. [Fr., Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse.]

— Jean de La Fontaine

Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness…

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

You had my heart, and I yours; a heart for a heart, good fortune for good fortune.

— Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

— Baltasar Gracian

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

— Baltasar Gracian

I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion…

— Bill Gates

Most men I know, pissed away their fortunes. I'm the only one I know, that made a fortune pissin'

— Frank Costello

“From a certain height, everyone looks the same - men, women, villains, kings - as if rank and fortune were simply an…

— Joanne Harris