Fortune Quotes

Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

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 great good fortune to be popular.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

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

I believe in America. America's made my fortune.

My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.

Fortune favours the bold.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

When someone succeeded in quickly making a lot of money in America, people said he had made his fortune.

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.

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 never pay a fortune for clothes.

Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday.

Fortune is either with you or it's not.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.