Fortune Quotes

All those who slight me to my face, Or do me any other evil, Even if they blame or slander me, May they attain the fortune of enlightenment!

Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.

A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune.

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.

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

We all know a variety of ways to make a living. What's even more fascinating is figuring out ways to make a fortune.

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.

Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.

The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.

Happiness is always a choice. You can't wait for circumstances to get better. You have to create your own good fortune. So look for ways to be happy every day.

Fortune seized at the right moment gives victory.

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.

As a person in the public eye, I have always felt that if I have the good fortune of being able to shed a spotlight on different causes that I feel passionately about...

Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.

Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.

Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.

Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies.

Fortune smiles on some, and lets the others go free.

The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.

If you make a sale, you can earn a commission. If you make a friend, you can earn a fortune!

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

If we have youth, beauty, blessed gifts, strength, if we find fame, fortune, favor, fulfillment, it is easy to be nice, to turn a warm heart to the world.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.

That each day that you love, honor, and respect your own unique point of view, you're a step closer to finding a fortune.

All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

You will be tested as a leader....You may be tested with success, fame, and fortune.

The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.

Blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please.

I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.

Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.

No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.