Fortune Quotes

1539 Fortune quotes by 990 unique authors

Most Americans don't know enough about basic economics to fill out one fortune cookie. — Neal Boortz
The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with… — Glen Cook
I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing… — Dave Barry
The world is an abundant place. Abundant with opportunity, abundant with good fortune, abundant with ideas, and abundant with love. Reach into that abundance and… — Neale Donald Walsch
How you experience your life depends on how you look at it. If you look at it as a constant stream of difficulties and challenges,… — Neale Donald Walsch
Leading is not the same as being the leader. Being the leader means you hold the highest rank, either by earning it, good fortune or… — Simon Sinek
More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's feelings and reactions… — Sebastiao Salgado
If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics. — Joseph-Louis Lagrange
See, see how the sun has moved onward while we talked. Nothing can stop it in its course. Prayers cannot halt the revolving of nature.… — Eiji Yoshikawa
Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or… — James Kelman
I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do. — Evelyn Ashford
Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for… — E. O. Wilson
Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It's an expression of confidence that better days are coming. It's a defiant finger… — Pearl Cleage
To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on a lake. Camp… — Michael Eisner
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done. — Honore de Balzac
To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune. — Benjamin Franklin
What ever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things. — A A Milne
To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves. — Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall! — John Donne
In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not… — Grover Cleveland
We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason — Unknown Author
I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after. — Daniel Boone
So many of us invest a fortune making ourselves look good to the world, yet inside we are falling apart. It's time to invest on… — Iyanla Vanzant
There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune;… — Tacitus
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune. — Quintilian

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