Fortune Quotes
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Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.
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The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
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I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.
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What else may hap, to time I will commit.
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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
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You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.
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Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune
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Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
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Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave.
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The author wishes to thank: Good fortune, Godiva chocolates, and Slim-Fast
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The thing of courage As rous'd with rage doth sympathise, And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key, Retorts to chiding fortune.
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One good idea is all you need to start a fortune.
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Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.
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Mexico's making a fortune off the United States.
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When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone.
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I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.
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No man actually owns a fortune. It owns him.
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Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher. To show us where she stood there rests alone Tiber; and that too hastens to be gone. Learn, hence what fortune can. Towns glide away; And rivers, which are still in motion, stay.
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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
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There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
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For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.
