Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
I know I am--that simplest bliss The millions of my brothers miss. I know the fortune to be born, Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.
A despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of Fortune, but not break them.
Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.
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.
Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.
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. ]
There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of.
How do you make a small fortune in the wine business? Start with a large fortune and buy a winery.
I grew up poor. I had no money. My family was poor. There's things I wanted to do and couldn't. I was an abused wife. Just -- there's tons of things that I couldn't even mention. And for me to come up and to have all of this fame and fortune, it's just.
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.
there is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.
Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.
I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.
When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald.
Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities. Know that there is no finish line; fortune favors action. Race balls-out toward the extraordinary life that you’ve always dreamed of, or still haven’t had time to dream up. And prepare to have a hell of a lot of fun along the way.
You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.
One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.
To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?