Fortune Quotes

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

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.

In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

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.

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

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

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.