Fortune Quotes

The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est: Nam timor eventus deterioris abest.]

I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book...on my computer!

They may well fear fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim: but they who rest on what is have a destiny beyond destiny, and can make mouths of fortune.

Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]

If you think that material success will bring you happiness, relationships, people, places, things, fame, fortune, you definitely should not practice tantra.

Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature's way, give their own characters The name of Fortune.

Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

His own character is the arbiter of every ones fortune.

Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .

Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold for him?

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

There can be no doubt that probability increases with practice. Fortune favours the brave, fortune favours the prepared mind, and fortune favours those who work the hardest.

Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

Success can corrupt; usefulness can only exalt.

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

While fortune lasts you will see your friend's face.

Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.

Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

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.

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

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

I believe in America. America's made my fortune.

There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away.

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.

We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

The greatest change to go from average to fortune is not so much an increase in knowledge, but rather, a change in our emotions about achieving our goals.

When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.

Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.

A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.

Service is what life is all about.