Fortune Quotes
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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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Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.
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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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I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.
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One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.
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The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.
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We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.
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Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
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Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.
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Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
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Character is itself a fortune.
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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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When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.
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If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
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None can hold fortune still and make it last.
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If fortune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him, to guard him against danger, to fight against his enemies.
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T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
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Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
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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'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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Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!
