Fortune Quotes

Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.

Eric Butterworth

An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.

Ambrose Bierce

When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth

Proverb

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

Benjamin Franklin

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

William James

Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.

Proverb

One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good thing in that it conferred 'experience' on the despised and much-deceived wife. Well, the main 'experience' involved the comprehensive fouling-up of the nation's health-care arrangements, so as to make them considerably worse than they had been before and to create an opening for the worst-of-all-worlds option of the so-called HMO, combining as it did the maximum of capitalist gouging with the maximum of socialistic bureaucracy. This abysmal outcome, forgiven for no reason that I can perceive, was the individual responsibility of the woman who now seems to think it entitles her to the presidency.

Christopher Hitchens

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

Charles Montesquieu

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.

Michel de Montaigne

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of envy can lead to emulation and ambition and have positive consequences.

Christopher Hitchens

Fortune does not so much change men, as it unmasks them.

Source Unknown

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.

William Shakespeare

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.

William Shakespeare

Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them.

Samuel Johnson

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Francis Quarles

I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

Ovid

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

There is no greater misfortune, than to not be able to endure misfortune.

Proverb