Fortune Quotes

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Misfortune may become fortune through patience.

Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.

The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason

Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.

It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous

By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.

The wheel goes round and round, some are up and some are on the down, and still the wheel goes round.

Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.

Time properly invested is worth a fortune.

Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness. [Fr., Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse.]

Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.

We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.

[With] closet indexing....you're paying a manager a fortune and he has 85% of his assets invested parallel to the indexes. If you have such a system, you're being played for a sucker.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.

Every new generation of LGBT Americans needs to be inspired by leaders who come out - whether in Congress, the nonprofit sector, the NFL, or corner offices of Fortune 100 companies.

Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.

Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.

No man actually owns a fortune. It owns him.

Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

God's promises are not fortune cookies. We do not use them in order to get a spiritual "fix" for the day.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

A broker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoestring.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.