Quotes on Fortune

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend; and thus from good they gradually decline to evil, and from evil again return to good. The reason is, that valor produces peace; peace, repose; repose, disorder; disorder, ruin; so from disorder order springs; from order virtue, and from this, glory and good fortune.

It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.

One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Don't let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face-and there will be barriers-be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you're capable of unless you try.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune,_x000D_ _x000D_ That I would set my life on any chance,_x000D_ _x000D_ To mend, or be rid on't.

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 thing of courage_x000D_ _x000D_ As rous'd with rage doth sympathise,_x000D_ _x000D_ And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key,_x000D_ _x000D_ Retorts to chiding fortune.

Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.

And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune?" "Can't girls seek their fortune?" "I think they're supposed to seek a boy with a fortune.

The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.

Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!