Fortune Quotes · Page 59

In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.

— Steve Guttenberg

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.

— Anonymous

Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same

— Barbara Kingsolver

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

— Horace

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of…

— Paul Sweeney

Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.

— George Ade

...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurred to me that anything like…

— Edith Widder

“Dear God, I don’t ask for fame and fortune but for an opportunity to embrace many. I don’t ask you to make…

— Ron Baratono

The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a…

— Norman Vincent Peale

Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder…

— Thomas a Kempis

They make their fortune who are stout and wise, Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies. [Lat., Che sovente addivien che'l…

— Torquato Tasso

A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest, A motley fool! a miserable world! As I do live by…

— William Shakespeare

North Korea is creating its own time zone. It's going to push the country's time back a half hour. So it's not…

— Conan O'Brien

“But fortunate means that a man has assigned to himself a good fortune: and a good fortune is good disposition of the…

— Marcus Aurelius

“It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship. I came to…

— Albert Einstein

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of…

— John Ruskin

“For the wise man does not consider himself unworthy of any gifts from Fortune’s hands: he does not love wealth but he…

— Seneca

You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma . Today you’re here and nothing you can do will change…

— James Clavell

“To any soul born of God, fortune is a default birthright...transact with a higher algorithm for prosperity on earth, as it is…

— Tracey Bond

Many a woman shudders ... atthe terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness,…

— Anonymous

“It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how…

— Al Masudi

Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.

— Ed Seykota

“It is a mistake," Labruyère tells us, "to be in love without an ample fortune.”

— Marcel Proust

Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as…

— Jean Baudrillard

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

— John Dryden

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

— Luc de Clapiers

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

— Ann Patchett

I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow…

— Anna Held

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

— Wislawa Szymborska

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by…

— Bodhidharma

Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.

— John Harington

A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Anonymous

What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to…

— Helene Hanff

Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their…

— Juvenal

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

— Sting