Fortune Quotes · Page 17

I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do.

— Evelyn Ashford

Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.

— Decimius Magnus Ausonius

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

— Joseph Addison

May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.

— William Shenstone

Obey the muse, Liz said. She's a fickle mistress.

— Gayle Forman

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

— Torquato Tasso

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

— Michel de Montaigne

Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.

— Livy

I look at all these wonderful actors who are out of work, and I don't know what accounts for my good fortune,…

— Ann Dowd

The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got…

— Napoleon Hill

Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too…

— Neil Peart

Mom-and-pop businesses have the same issues as the Fortune 500. The difference is that big companies spend millions on consultants to fix them.

— Christopher Myers

I watch 'Jeopardy!' every night and 'Wheel of Fortune' follows. And every time I'm like, 'Whoa, it's still on! This is still…

— Martha MacIsaac

The lazy part of me would love to do a sitcom where I could work three days a week and make a…

— Corbin Bernsen

One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]

— Quintus Ennius

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

— Sting

I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three…

— James Rebhorn

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers,…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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

— Libba Bray

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

Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. They think it comes from doing something on a big…

— Orison S. Marden

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

I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board…

— Jack Handey

“I think in my old age I've come to realize just how precious everything is and I try to value the many…

— Phil Hartman

A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants… The large and rapid fortunes…

— Fanny Kemble

Trouble follows you like a shadow, Gillian. You're prone to injuries. I swear to God, if a tree decided to fall right…

— Julie Garwood

Listen Wanderlei, I will do a home invasion on you. I will cut the power to your house and the next thing…

— Chael Sonnen

“At last, he began to discourse of fortune and human affairs. "Is it meet," said he, "for him that knows he is…

— Plutarch

How you experience your life depends on how you look at it. If you look at it as a constant stream of…

— Neale Donald Walsch

“Suppose you are particularly rich and well-to-do, and say on that last day, 'I am very rich; I am tolerably well known;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“A man should never make a fortune while another man starves.”

— Gordon McCormick

Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.

— Valmiki

I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.

— F. L. Lucas

“fortune has no era finer than this moment”

— Anonymous

The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

— William Blake

Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.

— William Shakespeare

One good idea is all you need to start a fortune.

— Brian Tracy

There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of.

— Publilius Syrus