Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.
I've had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I'm just so thankful for it. But at the same time I feel exceptionally guilty. I have so many friends who are talented graduates of Juilliard and are exceptional actors and I'm the lucky one that somehow got such a fortunate break.
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.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
The Federal Reserve system obviously doesn't work anymore - they keep lowering the federal discount rate, and all that happens is that the banks are making a fortune, and the old folks' CDs are getting chewed up.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
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.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive.
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.
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.
A great fortune is a great slavery.
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat, and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn't move to New York to make a fortune.
My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
Fortune sides with him who dares.
For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
The NBA's a Fortune 500 company. That's how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you don't see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach.
But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.
Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
Sharon Stone has made a fortune from her movies, so who says you can't get something for nothing?
The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I'm blessed, and aware that it isn't going to last forever.
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
