Fortune Quotes

My fortune is in the fact that I don't need it.

He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the world as he does his own body can be entrusted with the world.

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.

By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune.

The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.

And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.

In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

I'm excited about what the future holds. I'm not a fortune-teller; I have no idea how it will play out. People say, "What are you going to do?" I don't know. I kind of love that not knowing.

Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.

Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.

To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

Fortune, that favors fools.

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.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.]

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.

Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.

I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

Every person - with his or her own skills, abilities and uniqueness - can contribute to others and bring great joy to those that fortune has not smiled upon.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

Fortune never helps the fainthearted.

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases.

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.

The man who begins to speculate in stocks with the intention of making a fortune usually goes broke, whereas the man who trades with a view of getting good interest on his money sometimes gets rich.

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.

Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.

Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.