Fortune Quotes

Fortune Quote of the day

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

The harder you work the luckier you get.

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune

A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.

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.

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin it.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.

As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

Life's a wheel of fortune and y'all can't buy a vowel.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

Most men I know, pissed away their fortunes. I'm the only one I know, that made a fortune pissin'

It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.

A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.

There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.

I made a fortune getting out too soon.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

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

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

Fortune sides with he who dares

Behind every fortune, there's a crime.

When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye.

Balance and good fortune can only come to a person who is balanced and feels fortunate.

Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.

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 I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.

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

If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea.