Fortune Quotes

1539 Fortune quotes by 990 unique authors

Oh, I am fortune's fool! — William Shakespeare
While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that… — Jhumpa Lahiri
The truth brings no man a fortune. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the… — Ayn Rand
In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born… — Diana Wynne Jones
Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts,… — Chuck Palahniuk
He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune. — Jim Davis
Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory. — James Kahn
Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when… — Louis L'Amour
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for… — John Dryden
In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a… — Marcus Aurelius
If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be… — Cormac McCarthy
I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes. — Khalil Gibran
The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil. — Boyd K. Packer
Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the… — Rebecca Solnit
In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left her boots and… — Anita Shreve
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are… — Thomas Jefferson
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration. — Evan Esar
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our… — William Shakespeare
...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of… — John Gardner
Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright. — Mario Puzo
For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among… — Marcel Proust
Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune. — Theodore Roosevelt
Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will change that. Today you are alive… — James Clavell
Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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