Fortune
The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life.
That which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune.
That which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a course of action; good or ill success; especially, favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort.
Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.
To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.
To provide with a fortune.
To presage; to tell the fortune of.
To fall out; to happen.
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Fortune Quotations
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Benjamin Franklin
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
William Shakespeare
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
William Shakespeare
Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
Steve Jobs
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
Mae West
Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
Ayn Rand
Fortune Translations
fortune in Afrikaans is lot
Fortune in Dutch is Fortuna
fortune in Dutch is lot, fortuin, fortuinlijkheid
fortune in Finnish is osa, onnetar
fortune in French is sort
fortune in Italian is patrimonio
fortune in Latin is fors fortis, fortuna, casus
fortune in Norwegian is formue, lykke, skjebne
fortune in Portuguese is fortuna
fortune in Spanish is fortuna
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