Fortune Quotes
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A prince indebted is a fortune made.
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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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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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There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
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Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.
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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good – fortune.
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Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
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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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My pride fell with my fortunes.
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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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Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.
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Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, just like a poet, sometimes assigns the leading role, sometimes that of the supporting role; sometimes that of a king, sometimes that of a beggar. Do not, therefore, being a supporting actor, desire the role of the lead.
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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.
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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.
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It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.
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A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
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Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve in garrets, nor wear rags - at least in America.
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Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.
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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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The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.
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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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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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Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
