Quotes about Fortune

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

When riches begin to come they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

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

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

Happiness is always a choice. You can't wait for circumstances to get better. You have to create your own good fortune. So look for ways to be happy every day.

Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.

Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.

If I am seeking everything that can delight my senses, and regale my appetites; spending my time and fortune in pleasures, in diversions, and worldly enjoyments; a stranger to watchings, fastings, prayers, and mortification; how can it be said that I am working out my salvation with fear and trembling?

God does not deem you to be lucky or unlucky... you're mindset does.

I don't know how many millions I'll make, so I have to give some back to charity. God blesses me with the money, but only if I give some away.

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.