Fortune Quotes
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Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor
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I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.
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I had the great fortune to actually become friends with Sam [Fuller] and ultimately collaborate with him on White Dog, which we wrote together.
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Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.
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Nothing of fame or fortune can compensate for the spiritual suffering that one possessing such qualities has to endure.
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Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.
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For me, it [Crimea] is not borders and state territories that matter, but people's fortunes.
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The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.
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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
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Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.
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The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.
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When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
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May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.
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Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.
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Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
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To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
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In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.
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Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
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All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.
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Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.
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I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then life suddenly comes into focus for me. And, ah, there stand my kids.
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A total reverse of fortune, coming unawares upon a man who 'stood in high degree,' happy and apparently secure,-such was the tragic fact to the mediaeval mind. It appealed strongly to common human sympathy and pity; it startled also another feeling, that of fear. It frightened men and awed them. It made them feel that man is blind and helpless, the plaything of an inscrutable power, called by the name of Fortune or some other name,-a power which appears to smile on him for a little, and then on a sudden strikes him down in his pride.
