Fortune Quotes

1539 Fortune quotes by 990 unique authors

Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the… — R. D. Laing
Learning to endure, transform by perspective or action, and be grateful is the fast lane to a good life. That's right. Having great luck and… — Laura Schlessinger
Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who… — John Steinbeck
Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune. — Confucius
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full… — Marcus Aurelius
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
Show me a first-generatio n fortune and I'll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society's invisible venture capitalist, the commons. — William H. Gates, Sr.
No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do… — Laura Marling
Time properly invested is worth a fortune. — Jim Rohn
It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the… — Tony Judt
There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your… — Marie Dressler
Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune. — Murasaki Shikibu
My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found… — Elyn Saks
Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home. — Ava Gardner
I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat Tillman… did not have that opportunity.… — Jessica Lynch
If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we… — William Makepeace Thackeray
My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me. — Graham Norton
I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four… — Richard MacDonald
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes. — Juvenal
We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship… — Joshua Prager
When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be,… — Michael Apted
People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins. — Jasmine Guinness
Fortune helps the intrepid and abandons the cowards. I am the daughter of a man who did not know of fear. Whatever may come, I… — Caterina Sforza
It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who… — Niccolo Machiavelli
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold. — Baltasar Gracian

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