Fortune Quotes

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
Bacon, Francis

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Franklin, Benjamin

Fortune favors the prepared mind.
Pasteur, Louis

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.
Erika Slezak

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
Nicolas de Chamfort

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
Friedrich Schiller

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

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.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
Anita Baker

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

We make our own fortunes and we call them fate.

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever.

Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.
Butterworth, Eric

Each man is the smith of his own fortune.
Caecus, Appius Claudius







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