Fortune Quotes

Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.

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

The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.

However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.

Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.

No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.

Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.

Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.

A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.

In the future, fortune could well favor those who didn't sell their good domain names too cheaply, or too boldly

People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites.

For children is there any happiness which is not also noise?

Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.

At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.

There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.

Over the course of my career, I've had the great fortune of working with some incredible filmmakers who have protected me and inspired me and taught me what an honor it is to work in film.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.

I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.

No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.

Fortune to one is Mother, to another is Step-mother.

If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.

If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune, we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.

There are few have Dana's fortune, to have God and gold together.

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.

Every man is the maker of his own fortune

There sometimes wants only a stroke of fortune to discover numberless latent good or bad qualities, which would otherwise have been eternally concealed.

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.

Some people have made a fortune by being employed. Jerry Bruckheimer does not own his content. Warner Bros. owns his shows. They are on CBS, and he makes a fortune.

Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.

'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.

Behind every fortune there is a crime.

I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic.

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treach'rous shore.

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and whatever days fortune will give, count them as profit.

Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.

Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.

Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.

Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.

If you have no family or friends to aid you . . . turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune.

I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly women.