Fortune Quotes
The best sayings about Fortune that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
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When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
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Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.
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... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film.
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Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.
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When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal.
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In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.
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Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.
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There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.
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If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune, we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.
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Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.
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A just fortune awaits the deserving. [Lat., Fors aequa merentes Respicit.]
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We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.
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Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.
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I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes.
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Your fortune is misfortune if it is not Love.
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To not follow the dharma, either intentionally or through lack of awareness, creates a very low level of attention. In this low level of attention we make all kinds of mistakes and we are unhappy no matter what good fortune befalls us.
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It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
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Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]
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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
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Somebody said you have to love what you do, but that's not necessarily true. What is true is that you have to love the opportunity. The opportunity to build life, future, health, success and fortune. Knocking on someone's door or making that extra call may not be something you love to do, but you love the opportunity of what might be behind that door or call.
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I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.
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Fortune makes many loans, but gives no presents.
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Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men.
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Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.
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Lovers, like dying men, may well At first disorder'd be, Since none alive can truly tell What Fortune they must see.
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The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me. [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.]
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