Fortune Quotes · Page 46

Having had breast cancer has made me appreciate my great good fortune. It sounds so corny but I really do count my…

— Michaela Strachan

I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about…

— Abbie Cornish

I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune…

— Nigella Lawson

It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts.

— Clara Shih

It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.

— Nancy Pickard

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

— Jane Austen

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

— Francis Bacon

It's sometimes unnerving to think of that, and I wish it were possible for all children in the world to have the…

— James MacArthur

Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“We have all received our share of good fortune, so that's my definition of much. A single blessing is all the bounty…

— Denzel Washington

If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice,…

— Samuel Johnson

I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is…

— Bill Gates

I am the same person as always and I have the good fortune to play in a great team. It was an…

— Lionel Messi

Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the…

— John Ruskin

At Halloween, when fairy sprites Perform their mystic gambols, When ilka witch her neebour greets, On their nocturnal rambles; When elves at…

— Janet Little

The fortunes amassed through corporate organization are now so large, and vest such power in those that wield them, as to make…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Toads are conservative animals, I think, and not much given to expecting the best from fortune. Some weeks ago, well before the…

— Henry Mitchell

You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“❝Happy endings don’t come cheap. It isn’t enough to know you've found your soul mate, if you believe in that kind of…

— Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often…

— George Orwell

We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as…

— Warren Farrell

I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and…

— Jerry Della Femina

If we lose a job, we are easily tempted into thoughts like, "Ain't it awful? There aren't any jobs out there. This…

— Marianne Williamson

“Fame & fortune come with a price that fame finds insulting and fortune can't afford to pay back.”

— Dean Cavanagh

We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.

— Joshua Ferris

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

— Wilson Mizner

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.

— Pierce Brosnan

“The wise man seeks first and foremost to use his good fortune to increase the number of those with whom he collaborates.”

— Glenn Llopis

Balance and good fortune can only come to a person who is balanced and feels fortunate.

— Stuart Wilde

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

— Jim Cramer

It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring. [Lat., Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam vehat aetas.]

— Lucretius

Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even…

— Horace

I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes.

— Anonymous

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the…

— Aristotle

I am convinced that you don't need to spend a fortune to look like a million.

— Jil Sander

I don't know, but I stepped on a scale that gives fortunes and the card read Come back in 15 minutes alone.

— Frank Layden

Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.

— Adam Smith

If you work hard on your job, you make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune.

— Anonymous