Quotes About Fortune

There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away.

Happiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.

If you think about it for a moment, destiny is not a synonym of circumstance.

Good fortune is created/written/made.

My greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health

If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires.

Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

I don't know what the explosion did, but it damaged something deep and irreparable. Never mind. If I get home, I'll be so stinking rich, I'll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.

To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.

I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.

They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

Blessed be the slot players for theirs is the hope of a better day dawning.

There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Orient. You hope for the best and hope you are lucky.

At the heart of her bad nature, like many bad natures, was probably envy. And at the heart of envy was possibly hope - that the good fortune of others might one day be hers