Quotes About Fortune

Life doesn't offers charity, it offers chance.

If misfortune finds us, it will not find a home among us, for our hearts will give it no berth, as we birth the fortunes, misfortune missed.

But sometimes all the stars in the entire universe conspire to make something good happen.

Luck is just the result of a positive mental attitude.

Positive Thinking Is Practical There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!

In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.

all we have is "on loan" from Fortune, which can reclaim it without our permission—indeed, without even advance notice. Thus,

Whereas most people valued fame and fortune,6 a Stoic's primary goal in life was to attain and then maintain tranquility—to avoid, that is, experiencing negative emotions while continuing to enjoy positive emotions.

we must take care to be "the user, but not the slave, of the gifts of Fortune.

Although all things in excess bring harm, the greatest danger comes from excessive good fortune: it stirs the brain, invites the mind to entertain idle fancies, and shrouds in thick fog the distinction between falsehood and truth.

And when asked what he had learned from philosophy, Diogenes replied, "To be prepared for every fortune.

remember that all we have is "on loan" from Fortune, which can reclaim it without our permission—indeed, without even advance notice.

A man that's neither born to wealth, nor place, But to the mere despite of Fortune's brow, Though, peradventure, well endowed with grace Of stature, form, and other gifts enough, Submits himself unto a servile yoke, And is content to wear a livery cloak.

In short, she (Seraphina) had luck and judgment, but no morals.

To a Bonaparte it represents what Jacob Astor meant when he said, "The first hundred thousand dollars are the most difficult." It is the beginning, the possibility of a fortune, not a fortune itself. With it, Bonaparte, the greedy little soldier, could go to Paris and begin the story.

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

The Company had gambled everything – and won.

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.

Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.

Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.