I went to America not for fame or fortune but to be able to communicate with the biggest audience.
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
I’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.
I think back to having had the good fortune of being at Warner Bros. when we were doing ‘Lois & Clark.’ The chemistry between Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher was really wonderful.
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
I’m a fortune teller, but I don’t like to know my future.
We’re going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I’m going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it’s worth a fortune. I’ll make this a work of magic warlock art.
I had the good fortune and the gift to be one of the 12 men to walk on the moon.
I’m not after fame and success and fortune and power. It’s mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that’s the good stuff in life.
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
I have the fortune of playing with world-class stars.
Justin Hayward was a teenager when he was drafted into the Moody Blues in 1966. He brought with him one song he had written for his girlfriend. This was called ‘Nights in White Satin,’ which subsequently made a fortune for a lot of people.
Those who have prospered and profited from life’s lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.
I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.
I am very grateful for the opportunities I’ve had and feel I have a duty to repay my good fortune through philanthropic endeavors that expand the reach of human possibility and compassion.
I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is ‘Wheel Of Fortune’ because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.
Fortune favours the bold.
My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.
I’ve had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world.
Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the wrong reasons – as a shortcut to fame and fortune. If these goals are not attained, they feel a bitter disappointment.
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future… A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you.
I understand reversal of fortune; that usually has come through my own hand, but you know, you live life on life’s terms.
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.
When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it’s like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.
I’ve gained fans, fame, fortune, but I don’t feel different. Am I supposed to?
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
I’m a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the NBA and the Olympics. I first got into sculpting when I created a sculpture based on a painting I had done for the 1984 Olympics.
I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.
My back is full of metal; so are my hands and legs. I’ll have to decide who will get all that in my will. It’s probably worth a fortune in scrap metal. But it doesn’t affect my movement.
But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.
How many of the ‘Fortune’ 500 are hacked? 500.
A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.
I should have conceived the idea for ‘The Mighty Walzer’ earlier. A boy who dreamed of winning fame, fortune, and the adoration of beautiful women as a table-tennis player – shame on me for taking so long to see the mock-heroic possibilities in that.
Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I’ve consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life – and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
I don’t need to make a fortune, I need to survive.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.
Too few rejoice at a friend’s good fortune.
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‘This is a misfortune’ but ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune.’
You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
I had the good fortune to be in some movies when I was younger that, for whatever reason, people identified with or related with.
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
I sometimes think that the only person fit to inherit wealth is the person who doesn’t need an inheritance – the person who would create his own fortune no matter what his start in life – and have come to view inherited wealth as an affliction.
The Federal Reserve system obviously doesn’t work anymore – they keep lowering the federal discount rate, and all that happens is that the banks are making a fortune, and the old folks’ CDs are getting chewed up.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.
For nearly eight decades, I’ve had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people.
The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
If you go back, ‘The Great Gatsby’ would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
As it is my good fortune to be American, I live in the only country that as a matter of policy is pro-Israel regardless of party allegiance; Democrats and Republicans equally unite behind the blue-and-white.
I’ve had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals.
The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which adverse fortune cannot take away. That for which he is indebted to circumstances is mere trapping and tinsel.
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you’re good enough.
