Fortune Quotes

"People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?"

James Madison, President

"I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within"

Plautus, Playwright

"It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training"

Ulysses S. Grant, President

"Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none"

Marcus Valerius Martial, Poet

"Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune"

Quintilian, Educator

"There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens"

Martin Van Buren, President

"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"

Marcus V. Pollio, Architect

"If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company"

Sela Ward, Actress

"In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune"

Taylor Caldwell, Author

"Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune"

Quintilian, Educator

"Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!"

John Dryden, Poet

"I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat"

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor"

Thomas W. Higginson, Clergyman

"Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius"

Isaac Disraeli, Writer

"I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist"

Michael Pollan, Educator

"I believe in America. America's made my fortune"

Mario Puzo, Novelist

"The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech"

John Mortimer, Novelist

"Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold"

Eric Butterworth, Educator

"The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted"

William Graham Sumner, Businessman

"Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime"

Margaret Cavendish, Writer

"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"

Nelson A. Miles, Soldier

"There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension"

Paul Getty, Businessman

"I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life"

Drew Barrymore, Actress

"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"

Amelia Barr, Novelist

"It's sometimes unnerving to think of that, and I wish it were possible for all children in the world to have the good fortune I've had in having a giving and loving family"

James MacArthur, Actor

"We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it"

George Farquhar, Dramatist

"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"

Bodhidharma, Leader

"A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad"

Bodhidharma, Leader

"I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own"

Wilson Mizner, Dramatist

"A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune"

Wilson Mizner, Dramatist

"Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed"

William Makepeace Thackeray, Novelist

"A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married"

Anna Held, Entertainer

"A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives"

Robert Emmet, Activist

"A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune"

Richard Whately, Writer

"Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester"

Francis Quarles, Poet

"Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived"

Francis Quarles, Poet

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