Fortune Quotes

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.

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

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

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.

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.

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

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

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

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I've felt all its favours and found its decay; Sweet was its blessing, kind its caressing, But now it is fled, fled far, far away.

You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.

We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.

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

A just fortune awaits the deserving. [Lat., Fors aequa merentes Respicit.]

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

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

Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

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

I'm fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies - in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.

A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

Everything bows to success, even grammar.

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

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

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

If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in.

One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.

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.

Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.

Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.

As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.

Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.

Fortune is like a widow won,And truckles to the bold alone.

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