Top 1200 Fame And Fortune Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

It's funny, but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never know when it will befall you.

Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.

Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.

There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs.

I'm trying to make the Hall of Fame.

In my brain all I think about is fame.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

Fame is a very strange animal.

Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.

I don't even think about fame at all.

I wanted to be champion. I know fame comes with that.

Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?

Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

Knowledge is power as well as fame.

I think that I have a seriousness of purpose, a lot of support, and a healthy amount of good fortune.

The creams I use are not expensive. Nivea is just as good. Why waste a fortune?

Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.

The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.

The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character. Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.

It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.

I had the good fortune to call George Steinbrenner both partner and friend.

Without possessions, success, fame; who are you?

Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

I have enemies I've never met - that's fame.

The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.

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

I don't want to acquire whatever 'fame' is.

I don't think I ever wanted fame.

America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.

Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead.

I was doing stunts for money, not for fame.

Fame is a beast that you can't control or be prepared for.

My fame is due to broadcast television.

I don't really like... fame in general.

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

I've had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals.

All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.

One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.

The fame game's fun, but it's not forever.

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

I think fame can come and go.

Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor.

Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.

Love is better than Fame.