Fortune Quotes
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There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
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The fortune of war is always doubtful.
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Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.
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The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.
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Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.
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Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.
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Character is itself a fortune.
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If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
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If I had my choice, I would do the same little independent films, but they would have $100 million budgets, so I could get paid a fortune and hang out in a huge trailer.
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I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line.
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We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.
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But no, he did not believe in capricious fortune, but in a carefully woven pattern where every tightly stretched warp thread of pain laid the foundation for a woof thread of joy.
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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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It's hard to tell our bad luck from our good luck sometimes. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something when if we'd understood the situation better we might have celebrated our good fortune instead.
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Risk is what you control and fortune is really all about risk. Bottom Line: Fortune comes from big money bets on very low probability events.
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Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
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When the man was disgraced and told to go away, he was allowed to ask all the animals whether any of them would come with him and share his fortunes and his life. There were only two who agreed to come entirely of their own accord, and they were the dog and the cat. And ever since then, those two have been jealous of each other, and each is for ever trying to make man choose which one he likes best. Every man prefers one or the other.
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Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.
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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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Leading is not the same as being the leader. Being the leader means you hold the highest rank, either by earning it, good fortune or navigating internal politics. Leading, however, means that others willingly follow you—not because they have to, not because they are paid to, but because they want to.
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That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.
