Fortune Quotes

To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.

One of the most important of all the causes of great inequality of income is the inheritance of a great fortune by a small minority.

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.

However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]

I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.

Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it? [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]

Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.

Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.

Fortune comes well to all that comes not late.

Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.

What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.

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

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.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

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

It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.

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