Quotes about Fortune
Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
— Epicurus
We make our fortunes and call them fate.
— Benjamin Disraeli
We make our own fortunes, and call them fate.
— Benjamin Disraeli
If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up. -L.M. Montgomery
— LM Montgomery
What is to be, will be, said Mrs. Rachel gloomily, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.
— LM Montgomery
What is to be will be, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.
— LM Montgomery
This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile, taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath. This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while laughs in the teeth of Death.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments. In a religious experience, for example, it is not a thing that imposes itself on man but a spiritual presence. 5 What is retained in the soul is the moment of insight rather than the place where the act came to pass. A moment of insight is a fortune, transporting us beyond the confines of measured time.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
A moment of insight is a fortune, transporting us beyond the confines of measured time.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
We have to learn that personal suffering is a more effective key, a more rewarding principle for exploring the world in thought and action than personal good fortune.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
that the strong beams of the sun of prosperity upon many men make them to be leprous.
— Jeremiah Burroughs