Quotes about Fortune
bad fortune is really just as good for you as good fortune is, in fact, it is better, because, he says, bad fortune teaches, while good fortune deceives. When
— Peter Kreeft
and he became richer and richer, until he was exceedingly wealthy.
— Genesis 26:13
In order not to forget God and through lack of restraint to misuse one's good fortune, it is ten times more necessary to call upon God's name during a period of bliss than in the midst of tribulation.
— Martin Luther
You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
— Deuteronomy 28:19
What is to be will be, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.
— LM Montgomery
A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.
— Joseph Addison
The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.
— Thomas a Kempis
I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happen to all.
— Ecclesiastes 9:11
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
— Edith Wharton
that the strong beams of the sun of prosperity upon many men make them to be leprous.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Whatever limits us we call Fate.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson