Quotes About Fortune

Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.

The shortest and best way of making your fortune is to let people clearly see that it is their interest to promote yours.

A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.

One is never as fortunate or as unfortunate as one thinks.

There is no accident so disastrous that a clever man cannot derive some profit from it nor any so fortunate that a fool cannot turn it to his disadvantage.

Whatever difference may appear in men's fortunes, there is nevertheless a certain compensation of good and ill that makes all equal.

Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.

We should manage our fortune as our constitution; enjoy it when good, have patience when 'tis bad, and never apply violent remedies but in cases of necessity.

Fortune turns everything to the advantage of her favorites.

To be a great man one should know how to profit by every phase of fortune.

There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them.

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people.

All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.

I think they both have to be lucky. It's like, luck friction. One's flint and one's steel, striking together to make fire.

war, like fortune, doesn't touch all folk with the same hand.

La suerte no tiene nada que ver- respondió- se trata de fuerza e inteligencia

Men marry for fortune, and sometimes to please their fancy; but, much oftener than is suspected, they consider what the world will say of it--how such a woman in their friends' eyes will look at the head of a table. Hence we see so many insipid beauties made wives of, that could not have struck the particular fancy of any man that had any fancy at all.

What do you mean by yuanfen?" She thought for a minute and replied, "It means: that apportionment of love which is destined for you in this world.

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.

With God on your side, what does luck matter?

I'll never pause again, never stand still, till either death hath closed these eyes of mine, or fortune given me measure of revenge.'

The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time.