Fortune Quotes

Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

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

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

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

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]

Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.

Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.

This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change, For 'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power

The ego seeks fame and fortune. Humility doesn't seek at all - it accepts.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

But evil fortune has decreed, (The foe of mice as well as men) The royal mouse at last should bleed, Should fall ne'er to arise again.

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.

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

A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.

Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.

We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.

When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.

In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.

That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

Truth is no road to fortune.

You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.

But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

Liev cares about a lot things. Israel is one of them. We had the good fortune of going there a couple of years ago. To share that experience with him was a great pleasure.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.

I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.

We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.

Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."

It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.

There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor.

Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.