Fortune

Famous quotes containing the word fortune:

“Good fortune lieth within bad, and bad fortune within good.”
—Lao-tzu.

“For this present, hard
Is the fortune of the bard,
Born out of time;
All his accomplishment,
From Nature’s utmost treasure spent,
Booteth not him.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)