Fortune Quotes · Page 47

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

— Abraham Cowley

It's funny, but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never know when it will befall you.

— Thomas McGuane

“Decisions made in haste are always subject to the ever changing tides of fortune.”

— Steven Redhead

However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

— Horace

“I should have begun to worry then, for as fortune comes to you, so does it slip away.”

— Alice Hoffman

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.

— Juvenal

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

— Socrates

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great…

— Anonymous

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future…

— J. Paul Getty

Cheers to the albums written fortunes earned lives touched in the millions and generations defined by one lonely person placing an ad…

— Dallas Clayton

My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not…

— James Fenton

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and…

— Bliss Carman

In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend…

— Anonymous

He that would relish success to a purpose should keep his passions cool, and his expectations low; and then it is possible…

— Jeremy Collier

You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by…

— William Penn

What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought…

— Barry Lopez

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a…

— Brandy Potter

Unlike conventional jocks, who tend to sell aluminum siding and give canned speeches to parochial-school athletic banquets in the off-season, race drivers…

— Brock Yates

“Your fortune is yet doubtful: when I examined your face, one trait contradicted another. Chance has meted you a measure of happiness:…

— Charlotte Brontë

Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our…

— Julian Baggini

To say grace, knowing that people on this globe are starving, indicates a highly selfish acquiescence in the arrogantly supposed favoritism of…

— Barbara Smoker

IF WE AND OUR POSTERITY SHALL BE TRUE TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IF WE AND THEY SHALL LIVE ALWAYS IN THE FEAR…

— Daniel Webster

Latto is like 'Lotto,' but my little twist on it. It's good fortune - I got '777' tatted on me. I live…

— Latto

My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.

— Max Beckmann

Hugh Hefner was a trailblazer. He followed his bliss and his bliss lead him to a billion-dollar fortune.

— Sherlyn Chopra

“With so much at stake, and so many fortunes to be made, benevolent intentions can easily be drowned out. She”

— Tim Lebbon

To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.

— Jeremy Taylor

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.

— Anonymous

Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun…

— Suzanne Collins

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains…

— James Boswell

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

— Virgil

May Time, Lady Luck and Mistress Fortune always be on your side. Once they are, nothing in the world will be able…

— Anonymous

Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]

— Francois Rabelais

Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one…

— John Webster

At the Feast of Fortune, she'll awaken, and the demigods will be cut down like-- like---" "Like our low prices at Bargain…

— Rick Riordan

Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.

— William Shakespeare