Fortune Quotes

1539 Fortune quotes by 990 unique authors

... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe… — Bernard Malamud
I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then life suddenly… — Lee Iacocca
One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business;… — Charlotte Bronte
Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage. — Pierre Corneille
Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all… — William Saroyan
I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my… — John Denver
Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men… — Phyllis McGinley
Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands. — Theophile Gautier
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family. — Carlos Fuentes
He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may… — Walter Benjamin
Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any. — John Harington
No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the… — Barbara Tuchman
I watch 'Jeopardy!' every night and 'Wheel of Fortune' follows. And every time I'm like, 'Whoa, it's still on! This is still happening! — Martha MacIsaac
I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line. — Mindy McCready
It's O.K. to accept good fortune. — Will Oldham
If these rich women from 5th Avenue spend a fortune on cashmere sweaters, they will come to my store to buy gummy bears. — Dylan Lauren
Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and… — Marc Ostrofsky
President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop… — Rob Portman
I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short… — David O. Russell
In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes… — Eric S. Raymond
I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people. — Lionel Richie
Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it. — Karrine Steffans
Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural and… — Julius Streicher
I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune. — Neil Strauss
Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune. — Andrew Tobias

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