Fortune Quotes

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

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.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it.

When life has beaten you up and you can't see a way to go on. Trust that tomorrow will change your fortune.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

Behind every successful fortune;There is Crime.

All alike, you men. You only want the satisfaction of being through with us first, that's all. So far I've had the good fortune of beating you to it. So I am heartless.

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.

Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.

I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.

When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.

Musicians should never forget that we're blessed. We have a special gift that people can enjoy through us. We've had the good fortune to receive this and pass it along to others.

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

If you have a lemon; make lemonade.

What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.

If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.

Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.

It's amazing how difficult it is for a man to understand something if he's paid a small fortune not to understand it.

Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.

If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.

Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.

True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.

If we followed our own advice, we'd be successful.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with others. Rejoicing generates good will.

What do we lose by another's good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them. That should be our desire and determination.

Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.

The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

You have to do more than you get paid for because that’s where the fortune is.

Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

All was glorious - a cloudless sky above, a most delicious view around. . . . How great is our good fortune! I care not what may be the condition of the earth; it is the sky that is for me now.

Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

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.

Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.