Definition of Fortune

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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

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

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

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
Mae West

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

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Jonathan Swift

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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