Fortune Quotes

It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance.

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.

Fortune confounds the wise, And when they least expect it turns the dice.

Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.

Time is everything. Anything you want, anything you accomplish - pleasure, success, fortune - is measured in time.

Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

Fortune favors the prepared.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal.

Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.

India's fortune will depend on how many runs the little champion scores. There is no doubt Tendulkar is the real thing.

It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.

How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.

Business schools make a fortune forcing their students to take in a HUGE amount of information. The majority of it is theoretical. The majority of that is useless.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.

Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.

The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.

It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.

Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

Fortune favours the audacious.

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.

I'm working full-time on my job and part time on my fortune. But it won't be long before I'm working full-time on my fortune. . . can you imagine what my life will look like?

My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.

Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.