Fortune Quotes
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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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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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Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.
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Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.
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Fortune have somewhat the nature of a woman; if she be too much wooed, she is the farther off.
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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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There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
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Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.
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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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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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If the loss of your fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.
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My pride fell with my fortunes.
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Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.
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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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Will Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest terms?
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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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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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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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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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By looting, the temples of the South and hunting out buried treasures, Mir Jumla amassed a vast fortune. The huge Hindu idols of copper were brought away in large numbers to be melted and cast into cannon.....
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My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to accustom myself to believing that there is nothing entirely in our power except our thoughts, so that after we have done our best regarding things external to us, everything in which we do not succeed is for us absolutely impossible.
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Referring to a wealthy miser he said, "He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him."
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“Each man is the architect of his own fortune.”
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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.
