333 Quotes About Fortune
- Author Seneca
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If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued you’ll always fancy yourself to be short of the things you need to the extent to which you lag behind what others have.
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- Author Philippa Gregory
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I don't know how much we will rise," I say stoutly. "And I have no fear of falling.He looks at me. "You are ambitious to rise?""We are all on fortune's wheel," I say. "Without a doubt we will rise. We may fall. But still I have no fear of it.
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- Author Herta Müller
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Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.
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- Author Sir Francis Bacon
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If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
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- Author Hilary Mantel
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He is not in the habit of explaining himself. He is not in the habit of discussing his successes. But whenever good fortune has called on him, he has been there, planted on the threshold, ready to fling open the door to her timid scratch on the wood.
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- Author Leon Battista Alberti
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As ability goes, so goes our fortune.
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- Author Marcus Aurelius
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough
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