Fortune Quotes

One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance.

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

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

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.

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

You can't let players do what they wish and be professional. That's a fact. As for the team, Boro had two internationals when I got there in 1995. Now they have more than 15. And they didn't cost the fortune some suggest.

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

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.

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

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.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff - something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and work with some terrific people who have hired me.

Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.