It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
I had the great fortune to work with John Houseman at Juilliard.
To be frank, my belief is if you just keep your head down and work, and you have the fortune to be successful, there really aren't moments that change you.
I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of some $18 billion, likes to pick a fight - especially fights where the line between good and evil is particularly stark.
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
I've had the fortune of meeting most of the 'Kids in the Hall.' One meeting was special in particular because this was before I had gotten anything, before anything was clicking, and I just found myself hanging out with Scott Thompson.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to ask how everything can be made better and the good fortune to find a right answer to this question in thought or in action.
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
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 result showed that fortune helps the brave.
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which adverse fortune cannot take away. That for which he is indebted to circumstances is mere trapping and tinsel.
Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
I am well aware of my good fortune, and I only hope to diversify so I can do what I'm already doing for more people as opposed to being so large and so great that I no longer want to do the thing that got me here.
These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good fortune to witness the light of this auspicious morn.
I remember being told 'Someone's gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing' and thinking 'no way'.
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
Fortune, that favors fools.
If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
It's O.K. to accept good fortune.
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.
I went to New York to train as a chef, and I had the good or bad fortune, depending on how you describe it, of being right there during 9/11. It was one of the best and the worst experiences.
