Fortune Quotes

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We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country

- C.S. Lewis

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

- Hermann Hesse

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

- Robert A. Heinlein

Fortune knocks at every man`s door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her

- Mark Twain

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

- Benjamin Franklin

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife

- Jane Austen

By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever

- Lao Tzu

To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.

- Proverb

If noble death be virtue`s chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom`s crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest

- Simonides

A man`s best fortune, or his worst, is his wife

- Thomas Fuller