Fortune Quotes

And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.

They make their fortune who are stout and wise, Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies. [Lat., Che sovente addivien che'l saggio e'l forte. Fabro a se stesso e di beata sorte.]

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

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.

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.

It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune-the ally of patient Time-that holds an even and scrupulous balance.

We each build our own future. We are the architects of our own fortune.

The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.

Good fortune then! To make me blest or cursed'st among men.

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.

Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune.

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring. [Lat., Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam vehat aetas.]

I tell my children that a man like Bill Gates has a personal fortune of $100 billion. They can't even comprehend that. Then I explain that he has more money than some countries.

It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.

The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.

Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the world as he does his own body can be entrusted with the world.

My fortune is in the fact that I don't need it.

Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.

Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!

I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to enjoy them both equally.

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust, something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens.

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.

Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

Trees in winter lose their leaves. Some trees may even fall during storms, but most stand patiently and bear their fortune.

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.