Top 320 Fortune Quotes

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

A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid – the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

I’ve had the fortune of meeting most of the ‘Kids in the Hall.’ One meeting was special in particular because this was before I had gotten anything, before anything was clicking, and I just found myself hanging out with Scott Thompson.

Obviously, I want it to be legally downloaded, and I myself have spent a fortune on iTunes because, for me, that’s the easiest way to get music.

When I pursued music, I was told, ‘oh, he’s just pursuing fame and fortune and he’s left the call of Christ in his life.’

Whatever fortune brings, don’t be afraid of doing things.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune.

In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn’t know about any of it. I didn’t have a plan. It’s good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.

My friends and family are amazed I’ve done so well. I was not a model student. No one expected that I’d build a Fortune 500 company at Symantec.

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

If I had not made a film like ‘Vaanaprastham,’ I would not have been able to go to Cannes or any other festival. I would not have had a chance to act as a Kathakali artiste. I would not have had a chance to be with some of the greatest Kathakali artistes. I consider all this my good fortune.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

Fortune is like glass – the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

When I was growing up, my mum was doing illegal smuggling with China. Sometimes she would see a fortune teller for advice. One time I went with her: ‘In your future, you’ll be living in foreign country and eating the foreign country rice,’ she said.

Everyone has a talent. It’s simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties of Virginia. My father possessed scarcely any fortune and had received a very limited education – but was a man to whom nature had been bountiful, and who had assiduously improved her gifts.

When people ask how I came up with the concept for my second novel, ‘The Immortalists’ – four siblings visit a fortune teller who is rumored to be able to tell anyone the date that they will die – I always wish I had a better answer.

Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who’s had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain age, I am struck by the tone of astonishment, and the certainty that something is being done secretively to beat the devil.

Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.

For the last couple of years, as the economic ground beneath all I’ve accomplished and cherished has shifted so profoundly in a life-shattering reversal of fortune, I’ve trained myself to stay alert when the roar and the rumbling of what could be catastrophic change begins.

I’ve really had a great career. It’s been part fortune and part my own choices that steered my own career into playing the great roles that I’ve played on stage in Australia and at the National and West End in London and on Broadway.

Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure.

I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children.

If I wasn’t an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.

Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune, because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.

Nigeria has had the misfortune – no, the fortune – of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere in Africa. The masses have seen it, they are disgusted, and they want an alternative.

I’ve had the good fortune to play characters that have a role-model thing to them.

I was not driven by fame and fortune.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

The best way to earn a fortune in America is to already have one.

I love kids. I love – I love what they bring to us every day. I have a great fortune to be with kids in the wintertime, a whole lot. And I just – I think you can learn so much, and they’re – it’s easy to say that they’re a hope, but they are.

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

I think my best work has been in France with great men. It’s been my great fortune to work with really great men – with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.

Obamacare is, number one and maybe least importantly, it’s costing the country a fortune.

I’ve been a regular customer at CVS Pharmacy, the country’s second-largest drugstore chain, for 20 years. I’ve spent a small fortune there over that span, visiting several times a week to pick up everything from milk to toothpaste to prescriptions.

Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans.

After ‘Born to Run,’ I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who’d come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.

Don’t be surprised at Fortune’s turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.

Hugh Hefner was a trailblazer. He followed his bliss and his bliss lead him to a billion-dollar fortune.

On ‘Taxi,’ I had the great fortune of directing many wonderful episodes, none more classic than Reverend Jim’s driving test. It was maybe the funniest show I did.

It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.

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 businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett’s.

I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck.

Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

Don’t get me wrong: I’ve had a lot of fortune, to come where I’ve come from, to be able to move to Europe, to go racing. But I had that fortune behind me. I grabbed it with both hands, and I made the best of it.

It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by the professionalism and generosity of everyone I have had the good fortune to work with at this awesome company.

If you ask me what is the best good fortune in my life, of course I say that I have seen in my lifespan the Wall coming down, the reunification.