Fortune Quotes
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A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
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The fortune of war is always doubtful.
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Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything.
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To me there's no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They're all equally valid or invalid, really. And equally helpful.
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Dont listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, theyd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut. Follow your instincts. Every once in a while, take a chance.
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Leading is not the same as being the leader. Being the leader means you hold the highest rank, either by earning it, good fortune or navigating internal politics. Leading, however, means that others willingly follow you—not because they have to, not because they are paid to, but because they want to.
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From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.
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I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world.
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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
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We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.
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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
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One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.
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Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
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Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
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Fortune is either with you or it's not.
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Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.
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Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.
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I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.
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Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.
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I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line.
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Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
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If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
