Fortune Quotes
That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.
Robert Blair
Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
Ambrose Bierce
The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
William Penn
Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune; and many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.
St. Basil
We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity
FranÃois de la Rochefoucauld
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
Thomas W. Higginson
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Marcus T Cicero 106BC
Fortune and love favour the brave.
Ovid
By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.
Lao-Tze
To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them.
William Shakespeare
Fate throws fortune, but not everyone catches.
Polish Proverb
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
Richard Whately
By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.
Lao-Tze
