Fortune Quotes

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic. Look at all the teams in America that have folded, and the leagues.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do.

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.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

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.

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

Fortune sides with him who dares.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

I am convinced that you don't need to spend a fortune to look like a million.

There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.

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.

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.

If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics.

When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

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

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.

Fortune favors the audacious.

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

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.