Fortune Quotes - page 2

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. (Jim Rohn)
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry. View quote
Mark Twain
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. View quote
Walt Whitman
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces. View quote
Julius Caesar
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
When Fortune smiles, I smile to think How quickly she will frown. View quote
Robert Southwell
It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune." View quote
Marcus Aurelius
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. (Cicero)
... vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. View quote
Edward Gibbon
To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficultyto keep heart when all have lost it to go through intrigue spotlessto forego even ambition when the end is gained who can say this is not greatness. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. View quote
Torquato Tasso
Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door. View quote
Torquato Tasso
I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune. View quote
Lucan
I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of it. View quote
Mae West
Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man. View quote
Livy
That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away. View quote
Seneca
Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms. View quote
Seneca
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading. (Rufus Choate)
One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days, as to fortune or fame. View quote
Willa Cather
We need greater virtues to sustain good fortune than bad. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune. View quote
Thomas Gray
Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away. View quote
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor