Quotes on Fortune

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Nothing but pain, stuck in this game, searching for fortune and fame.

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

The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune is exactly the same.

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

Disruption is about risk-taking. _x000D_ But then you become a Fortune _x000D_ 500 company, which is about risk _x000D_ mitigation

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

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around you, to other people. Do not protest; it is true. I am not condemning you. I was as selfish as you, when I was your age. It is the custom of the young to be selfish... But someday you will understand that nobody passes through this world without suffering-no matter what you think of them and their supposed good fortune.

We've all received our share of good fortune, so that's my definition of much. A single blessing is all the bounty in the world, and if you've been blessed at all you're meant to pass some of that on. You're meant to set a positive example. That's our responsibility

Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.

Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.