Quotes About Fortune

What makes you seek your fortune here / In Gotham? You must be as queer / As I am, and a million other / Insects far from home and Mother.

If disappointments do come, you will carry on still. You will say, just as he does, I am so lucky.

While his three eldest sons spent their adult lives toiling to improve the family fortunes, who had Benicio named as his heir? The illegitimate youngest son who had devoted his adult life to destroying the family business, or at least buggering it up real good. Does this make sense to anyone besides Benicio? Of course not. Either the man is a mastermind of family manipulation or just plain fucked in the head. I don't use that word much, but in some cases, nothing else fits. -Paige

The first of the brothers to leave their home in search of fortune was Henry, then twenty-three and the oldest. Henry settled in this city of 4,000 citizens and 2,000 slaves. His two brothers soon followed, and in 1850 they established a trading and dry-goods business called Lehman Brothers.

He was only a boy from a Welsh hill village who had the good fortune to become a monk. Today he would speak to the king. What gave him the right?

Quel giorno la vita e la morte erano state distribuite come carte da gioco.

She had always taught her sons that information could make a man's fortune—or save him from ruin.

BAD LUCK on the road can last only so long; then you die, or your luck improves.

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.

Prosperity has no power over adversity.

O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power

Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe."

It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.

Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

More than power is respect. Fortunate are those who command it.

Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God Fate Fortune Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

not being either philosophers17 to understand the reason, or mathematicians enough to calculate the powers and to proportion the parts, very luckily by accident found what they sought for.

To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.

Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.