A fortune can be a large amount of money, and fortune is a form of fate. So you want to have the good fortune to make a fortune during your career.
To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.
Noun
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance"
Noun
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome; "it was my good luck to be there"; "they say luck is a lady"; "it was as if fortune guided his hand"
Noun
a large amount of wealth or prosperity
Noun
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"
n.
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.
n.
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.
n.
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.
n.
Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a
gentleman of fortune.
n.
To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.
n.
To provide with a fortune.
n.
To presage; to tell the fortune of.
v. i.
To fall out; to happen.
Fortune
Fortune
It fortuned the same night that a Christian, serving a Turk in the camp, secretely gave the watchmen warning.
To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.
To fall out; to happen.
Usage Examples
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
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Other Usage ExamplesA great fortune is a great slavery.
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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