Fortune Quotes

• The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Challenge
  • Fortune
  • Destruction

• Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Fortune
  • Bear
  • Reverses

• When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • She
  • Bold
  • Favors

• Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Fortune
  • Sure
  • Seek

• I had the good fortune early on to cast some really great people that were not just characters, they had character.

  

  Don Coscarelli
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do.

  

  Evelyn Ashford
  • Want
  • Fame
  • Fortune

• To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Happy
  • Choose
  • Fortune

• All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.

  

  Edouard Rene de Laboulaye
  • Fortune
  • Secret Of Life
  • Vilest

• 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.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Fashion
  • Born
  • Sculptor

• The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth.

  

  Calvin Miller
  • World
  • Earth
  • Poor

• Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

  

  Aristotle
  • State
  • Citizens
  • Property

• The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

  

  Ryan Ross Panic! at the Disco
  • Prison
  • Fortune
  • Escaped

• It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Should
  • Interest
  • Mankind

• I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Influence
  • Stars
  • Court

• There are few have Dana's fortune, to have God and gold together.

  

  George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
  • God
  • Gold
  • Fortune

• 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.

  

  Bion of Borysthenes
  • King
  • Poet
  • Perform

• I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money, nor her office nor her influence. Her theft of these things, therefore. has taken away nothing of my own. Mother, my roof is the stars. My house is human goodness. My body is clothed. My stomach is full. And the thirstier part of me, my soul, drinks gladly from the pool of my books.So much for me. I am just fine.

  

  Walter Wangerin
  • Mother
  • Taken
  • Influence

• Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

  

  Plutarch
  • War
  • Fortune
  • Gale

• I made my money turning around distressed or bankrupt companies. I did 50-some of them in my career... I started on a shoestring and eventually built up quite a fortune.

  

  Michael Heisley
  • Money
  • Career
  • Companies

• 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.

  

  Euripides
  • Goals
  • Fortune
  • Strives

• 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.

  

  Andrew Cecil Bradley
  • Pride
  • Human Sympathy
  • Tragic Fact

• A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Woman
  • Sensible
  • Respectable

• The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Mind
  • Happiness
  • Misery

• There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Mood
  • Fortune
  • Good Times

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