O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.
I'm working full-time on my job and part time on my fortune. But it won't be long before I'm working full-time on my fortune. . . can you imagine what my life will look like?
Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our relative good fortune, should we have it. This is, I think, a pretty worthwhile practice and it is not something you can only do if you believe you are talking to an unseen creator.
There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.
Expect the Best, Expect Divine Guidance, Expect your Fortunes to Change, Expect a Miracle!
Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.
there is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.
Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.
My greatest good fortune in a life of brilliant experiences has been to find you, and to lead my life with you. I don't feel far away from you out here at all. I feel very near in my heart; and also I feel that the nearer I get to honour, the nearer I am to you.
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
It is the good fortune of the affluent country that the opportunity cost of economic discussion is low and hence it can afford all kinds.
The French philosopher Pierre-Hyacinthe Azaïs (1766-1845) formalized the statement that good and evil fortune are exactly balanced in that they produce for each person an equivalent result.
Bear good fortune modestly.
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
Take out the fortune before you eat the cookie.
For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.