Fortune Quotes
When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?
I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.
If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.
The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film.
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune.
Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards.
I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.
Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it's way.
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.
Grace. Loss. Fortune. Hardship. Victory. Sometimes the worst seat is best seat in the house and it comes as a result of leading.
The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.
In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.
There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.
His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.
The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune is exactly the same.
Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.
Let everyone witness how many different cards fortune has up her sleeve when she wants to ruin a man.
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
