Fortune Quotes

Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations.

I admit to spending a fortune on women, booze and gambling... the rest I spend foolishly.

[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?

I had the good fortune of living in Rome for seven years, from 1994 to 2001. So, I kind of saw firsthand the impact that Pope John Paul II had on people.

The path of the knowledgeable, successful person, which only leads to supreme good fortune and great success is always directly in front of you.

Mom-and-pop businesses have the same issues as the Fortune 500. The difference is that big companies spend millions on consultants to fix them.

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

Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.

Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts.

I had the great fortune to actually become friends with Sam [Fuller] and ultimately collaborate with him on White Dog, which we wrote together.

As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.

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

I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.

When we harness the natural force of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease.

I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children.

I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.

All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.

I had the good fortune early on to cast some really great people that were not just characters, they had character.

I want people that made a fortune.

I do not know that ever I desired anything earnestly in my life but 'twas denied me, and I am many times afraid to wish a thing merely lest my fortune should take that occasion to use me ill.

I change my direction, I can't even help it. It's sort of like the fortune and misfortune of being a rapper.

Most Internet business theorists are really looking at preserving the necks of giant, Fortune 500 companies, rather than promoting the digital, peer-to-peer economy that actually wants to happen.

the Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune.

Twitter... 140 character limit... must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers.

Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.

All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.

To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.

It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.

The fortune of nations has often depended on accidents . . .

Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes.

I think, because I've been working for a while, I've been working since I was ten, I had the fortune of reading a lot, a lot of scripts.

I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.

Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.

None can hold fortune still and make it last.

I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

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

I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.

As the consumer is the public general, without distinction of rank or fortune, the free market is the most obvious expression of the sovereignty of the people and the best guarantee of democracy.

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth.

Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.