Most people who do have the instincts will never recognize that they do, because they don't have the courage or the good fortune to discover their potential.
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat. , Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare. ]
It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.
God's promises are not fortune cookies. We do not use them in order to get a spiritual "fix" for the day.
Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
[With] closet indexing. . . . you're paying a manager a fortune and he has 85% of his assets invested parallel to the indexes. If you have such a system, you're being played for a sucker.
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
If fortune torments me, hope contents me.
It's hard to tell our bad luck from our good luck sometimes. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something when if we'd understood the situation better we might have celebrated our good fortune instead.
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
Who shall guess what I may be?Who can tell my fortune to me?For, bravest and brightest that ever was sungMay be - and shall be - the lot of the young!
No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.
We believe in the rights of every individual to seek his fortune, in respect for others and in tolerance. Let us reply to the terrorists by resolutely living our values and by redoubling those values across all of Europe - now more than ever.
Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.