fortune quotes

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

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

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.

I’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat, and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn’t move to New York to make a fortune.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Fortune befriends the bold.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

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.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.