Fortune Quotes

1539 Fortune quotes by 990 unique authors

Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this… — Albert Schweitzer
If you help others with sincere motivation and sincere concern, that will bring you more fortune, more friends, more smiles, and more success. If you… — Dalai Lama
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. — Miguel de Cervantes
Happiness is always a choice. You can't wait for circumstances to get better. You have to create your own good fortune. So look for ways… — Joel Osteen
What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate. — John Kenneth Galbraith
By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the… — Laozi
Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking,… — Andrew Carnegie
Our fortunes rise together, and they fall together. 'All men are brothers,' said the Analects. We have a collective responsibility-to bring about a more stable… — Christine Lagarde
Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing. — James Boswell
The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention. — Michel de Montaigne
When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. — Alexander Pope
Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune. — Elwyn Brooks White
It is we that are blind, not fortune. — Thomas Browne
Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy. — John Lyly

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