Fortune Quotes
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
Tags: Boats, Brings ✍ Author: William ShakespeareI have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
Tags: Depended, Ourselves ✍ Author: Lord ByronIn sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
Tags: Living, Sleep ✍ Author: Taylor CaldwellA man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Tags: Blessing, Mind ✍ Author: Thomas CarlyleLive as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Tags: Brave, Men ✍ Author: Winston ChurchillI never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Tags: Admire, Another ✍ Author: Winston ChurchillFortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
Tags: Genius, Rarely ✍ Author: Isaac D\'IsraeliFortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
Tags: Highest, Point ✍ Author: Maria EdgeworthHe that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Tags: Dinner, Sure ✍ Author: Benjamin FranklinThe usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Tags: Contempt, Pity ✍ Author: Samuel JohnsonFortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
Tags: Brave, Weak ✍ Author: James Russell LowellThe tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
Tags: Men, Power ✍ Author: William PennFortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Tags: Once, Patience ✍ Author: Laurence J. PeterNo man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Tags: Chance, Left ✍ Author: Sylvia PlathVisit partners pages
Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
Tags: Good, Religions ✍ Author: Raymond QueneauFortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
Tags: Advantage, Her ✍ Author: Francois de La RochefoucauldI am convinced that you don't need to spend a fortune to look like a million.
Tags: Million, Spend ✍ Author: Jil SanderFriends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Tags: Friends, Money ✍ Author: Arthur SchopenhauerWhatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
Tags: She, Whatever ✍ Author: Albert SchweitzerThe day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
Tags: Busy, Wisdom ✍ Author: Torquato TassoFrom my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
Tags: Maker, Tribe ✍ Author: Tim TebowDo not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
Tags: Advance, Meet ✍ Author: Richard VirenqueOne is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
Tags: Good, Moment ✍ Author: Lew WallaceMany have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
Tags: Become, Great ✍ Author: Johann Georg ZimmermannDisney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.
Tags: Idea, Real ✍ Author: David AntinI want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do.
Tags: Fame ✍ Author: Evelyn AshfordIf fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
Tags: Favors, She ✍ Author: Joseph AuslanderIt's very passe to think women want to spend a fortune on clothes.
Tags: Spend, Women ✍ Author: Tory BurchThe songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.
Tags: Grateful, Songs ✍ Author: Sydney CarterThere is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
Tags: Subject, War ✍ Author: Miguel de CervantesI made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.
Tags: Money, Small ✍ Author: Jim CramerToo much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
Tags: Good, Happiness ✍ Author: Rachel FieldI fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.
Tags: Anywhere, Fighting ✍ Author: David FriedmanFor all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
Tags: Hand, Misfortune ✍ Author: Laura San GiacomoBy going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
Tags: Lose, Money ✍ Author: Barry GibbEvery man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
Tags: Heir, Past ✍ Author: Jon HederI could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.
Tags: Finally, Politics ✍ Author: Francois HollandeAuthors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.
Tags: Characters, Fame ✍ Author: Anthony HorowitzLabor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
Tags: Good, Labor ✍ Author: James Weldon JohnsonIll fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Tags: Deceived, Good ✍ Author: Ben JonsonThe result showed that fortune helps the brave.
Tags: Brave, Result ✍ Author: Kenneth Robert LivingstoneWhatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
Tags: Afraid, Whatever ✍ Author: Herman MelvilleI've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.
Tags: Lawyers, Leave ✍ Author: Wilson MiznerA slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
Tags: Ambition, Him ✍ Author: Wilson MiznerI feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children.
Tags: Children, Privilege ✍ Author: Colleen MooreIt is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
Tags: Born, Honorable ✍ Author: PetrarchI just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.
Tags: Fame, Hold ✍ Author: Lionel RichieThe truth is, the 'Fortune' 500 prefer lobbying to campaigning.
Tags: Prefer, Truth ✍ Author: Betty SmithWhen Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.
Tags: She, Smile ✍ Author: Robert SoutheyFortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
Tags: Broken, Glass ✍ Author: Ryan SypekIt has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
Tags: Become, May ✍ Author: Anthony TrollopeThe responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.
Tags: Become, Good ✍ Author: Robert W. Welch, Jr.