Fortune Quotes

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

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, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep.

The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I'm blessed, and aware that it isn't going to last forever.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

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.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

I couldn't lie to get myself fame and fortune.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good fortune to witness the light of this auspicious morn.

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

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.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

I remember being told 'Someone's gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing' and thinking 'no way'.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.

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