Fortune Quotes
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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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Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
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I don't know the reason for that particular band's fortune or lack of it. But, in our case, I think it's the music that we make and made is timeless. It may remind you of the time you heard it.
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It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.
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Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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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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If you have no family or friends to aid you . . . turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune.
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Every happiness is a hostage 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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I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck.
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We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.
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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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Fortune helps the intrepid and abandons the cowards. I am the daughter of a man who did not know of fear. Whatever may come, I am resolved to follow that course until death.
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Behind every fortune there is a crime.
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My first contact with game theory was a popular article in 'Fortune Magazine' which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter, and when I studied mathematics, I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it.
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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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I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.
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Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a nation, or city, or empire; or does fortune give this as an example to the victor also of the uncertainty of human affairs, which never continue in one stay? For what time can there be for us mortals to feel confident, when our victories over others especially compel us to dread fortune, and while we are exulting, the reflection that the fatal day comes now to one, now to another, in regular succession, dashes our joy.
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He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.
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I have the good fortune of knowing both John McCain and Donald Trump well, both men have more in common than the today's media hype would have you believe. Both blazed trails in their careers and love our great nation.
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Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.
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Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.
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Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home.
