Fortune Quotes
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When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.
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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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Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor
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Behind every fortune there is a crime.
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India's fortune will depend on how many runs the little champion scores. There is no doubt Tendulkar is the real thing.
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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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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.
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Every person - with his or her own skills, abilities and uniqueness - can contribute to others and bring great joy to those that fortune has not smiled upon.
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Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.
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Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.
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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
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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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Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
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The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.
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Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.
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Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
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That power of the Gods which orders for the good things which are not uniform, and which happen contrary to expectation, is commonly called Fortune, and it is for this reason that the Goddess is especially worshipped in public by cities; for every city consists of elements which are not uniform.
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There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
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Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
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The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.
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It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.
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Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.
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The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth.
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Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards.
