Fortune Quotes
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The result of the revolution in Germany has been to establish a democracy in the best sense of the word. We are steering towards an order of things guaranteeing a process of a natural and reasonable selection in the domain of political leadership, thanks to which that leadership will be entrusted to the most competent, irrespective of their descent, name or fortune. The memorable words of the great Corsican that every soldier carries a Field Marshal's baton in his knapsack, will find its political complement in Germany.
Adolf Hitler
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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.
Richard Adams
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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.
Herodotus
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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.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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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.
William H. Macy
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Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.
Ed Seykota
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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.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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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.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Character is itself a fortune.
Samuel Smiles
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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.
George Graham Vest
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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.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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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.
Sophocles
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I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.
Bill Gates
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Thus does good fortune follow on the steps of the reckless.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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Giving away a fortune is taking Christianity too far.
Charlotte Bingham
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How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.
George Horace Lorimer
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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!
Jane Austen
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That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.
Seneca the Younger
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We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.
Seneca the Younger
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Balance and good fortune can only come to a person who is balanced and feels fortunate.
Stuart Wilde
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None can hold fortune still and make it last.
Euripides
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The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.
William Graham Sumner