Fortune Quotes
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I've never had good fortune with sequels. Everyone says this time is going to be better. And then I've done them and they've just been not - they weren't better.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark.
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Let everyone witness how many different cards fortune has up her sleeve when she wants to ruin a man.
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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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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
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For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds of thousands of other women are now giving all the time at their command. No class of men in our own or any other country has made one-tenth the effort nor sacrificed one-tenth as much for the vote.
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Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
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Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.
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The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
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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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“Each man is the architect of his own fortune.”
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It's really the creature of my own making from top to bottom. I appreciate that. And the good fortune, the perseverance, having the stamina to stick around longer than everyone else even after people write you off - that's always been a good motivating force in my life.
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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.
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If the loss of your fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.
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I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.
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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.
