Quotes about Fortune
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-Jim Rohn
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Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites. Votes: 3
Francois de La RochefoucauldFortune is always on the side of the largest battalions. Votes: 3
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneThose whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children. Votes: 3
Winston ChurchillWithersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet. Votes: 3
Benvenuto CelliniFortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced. Votes: 3
Marcus Tullius CiceroFortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous. Votes: 3
Maria EdgeworthThe fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions. Votes: 3
Marianne WilliamsonFortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. Votes: 3
Michel de MontaigneThe caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune. Votes: 3
Francois de La RochefoucauldFortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles. Votes: 3
Francois de La RochefoucauldO Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit! Votes: 3
Elizabeth IThough Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareFortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good. Votes: 3
Francois de La RochefoucauldFortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do. Votes: 3
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhen Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareFortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight. Votes: 3
Francois de La RochefoucauldCall it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God. Votes: 3
Seneca the YoungerCall it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God. Votes: 3
Lucius Annaeus SenecaFortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself. Votes: 3
P. T. BarnumBut wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. Votes: 3
John DrydenSympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them! Votes: 3
Anne FrankIf we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves. Votes: 3
Winifred HoltbyFortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance. Votes: 3
JuvenalFortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you. Votes: 3
Josh BillingsWhen Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald. Votes: 3
Leonardo da VinciFortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors. Votes: 3
Francois de La RochefoucauldFortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us. Votes: 3
Vincent VoitureAll other goods by Fortune's hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven. Votes: 3
Alexander PopeThe mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can. Votes: 3
Michael DraytonFortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him. Votes: 3
Publilius SyrusFortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any. Votes: 3
John HaringtonLet not one look of Fortune cast you down; she were not Fortune if she did not frown. Votes: 3
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of OrreryLive as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. Votes: 2
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune. Votes: 2
Amelia EarhartThere is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Votes: 2
William ShakespeareNo man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. Votes: 2
PlutarchYou leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. Votes: 2
Anita BakerThe rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing Votes: 1
Charles Caleb ColtonFortune his like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall Votes: 1
Francis Bacon, Sr.Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship. Votes: 0
Philibert Joseph Rouxthere is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune. Votes: 0
Dorothy L. SayersOnly learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheUpon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world. Votes: 0
B. C. ForbesWhat a world is this, and how does fortune banter us! Votes: 0
Henry St John, 1st Viscount BolingbrokeContentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune. Votes: 0
Marie LeszczynskaEverybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune. Votes: 0
Claire TomalinTwitter... 140 character limit... must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers.. Votes: 0
E.A. BucchianeriSee your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation. Votes: 0
Jean CocteauIt takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhen a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking. Votes: 0
George Horace LorimerThe permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune. Votes: 0
Lord ChesterfieldNo one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect Votes: 0
Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde DeshoulieresNo hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another. Votes: 0
Publilius SyrusA happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune. Votes: 0
Eden PhillpottsI could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics. Votes: 0
Francois HollandeIt is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman. Votes: 0
Niccolo MachiavelliMay I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune. Votes: 0
William ShenstoneWe cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either. Votes: 0
Niccolo MachiavelliOne should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces. Votes: 0
Niccolo MachiavelliOur probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldLuck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades. Votes: 0
Sophia LorenMany men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way. Votes: 0
Jean-Jacques RousseauOur temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldAmbition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all. Votes: 0
Mark KingwellReceive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance. Votes: 0
Marcus AureliusCalamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceHope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be! Votes: 0
Abraham CowleyI never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroA pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune. Votes: 0
Francois-Andre Danican PhilidorI cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive. Votes: 0
Thom YorkeI've gained fans, fame, fortune, but I don't feel different. Am I supposed to? Votes: 0
Kristin CastTime is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune. Votes: 0
Honore de BalzacNobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune. Votes: 0
Andrew TobiasNo one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldMisery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift. Votes: 0
Philip SidneyIf fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. Votes: 0
Decimius Magnus AusoniusWe each build our own future. We are the architects of our own fortune. Votes: 0
Appius Claudius CaecusThe ego seeks fame and fortune. Humility doesn't seek at all - it accepts. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellOur wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give. Votes: 0
Luc de ClapiersTreat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawProfits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune. Votes: 0
Jim RohnThe fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonMen fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise. Votes: 0
Jean de la BruyereNothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune. Votes: 0
Adam SmithWho lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind. Votes: 0
Abraham CowleyThe happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers. Votes: 0
Amish TripathiWe do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune. Votes: 0
JuvenalIt seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHas fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester. Votes: 0
Francis QuarlesAmbition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinWhatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerThere are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleWe must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause. Votes: 0
Steven PressfieldIf I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics. Votes: 0
Joseph-Louis LagrangeThere is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of. Votes: 0
Publilius SyrusI'm not sure whether it's good fortune or bad, but I've died many times on screen. Votes: 0
Ty OlssonThe worth of a wife is a man's good fortune;His jewels are his good children. Votes: 0
ThiruvalluvarYou will be tested as a leader....You may be tested with success, fame, and fortune. Votes: 0
Greg Laurie[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth? Votes: 0
Chinua AchebeGo on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat. Votes: 0
Julius CaesarThe Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonNot only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world. Votes: 0
George HerbertThe brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works. Votes: 0
Miguel de CervantesMy goal has always been longevity. Not fame and fortune, just get a job and keep it. Votes: 0
James GarnerYou had my heart, and I yours; a heart for a heart, good fortune for good fortune. Votes: 0
Marceline Desbordes-ValmoreNot even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune. Votes: 0
E. B. WhiteTo find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. Votes: 0
Baltasar GracianThe more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some. Votes: 0
Sarah McLachlanTo be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinIf the loss of your earthly fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss. Votes: 0
Elizabeth PrentissMy greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health Votes: 0
Kyffin WilliamsA lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.
Jean de la BruyereThose whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
Seneca the YoungerWe should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Robert Louis StevensonBalance and good fortune can only come to a person who is balanced and feels fortunate.
Stuart WildeThere is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it
Andrew CarnegieThe greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.
Francois de La RochefoucauldTo make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.
Ihara SaikakuYou fellows ever thought of hiring out as a Christmas lights crew? You'd make a fortune.
Ilona AndrewsGood fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.
Pierre CorneilleWinning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun"
Suzanne CollinsSomeone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.
Alec WilkinsonThe human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end.
Charles C. MannTo be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.
John DrydenFortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]
Marie Jeanne RiccoboniThe vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.
Niccolo MachiavelliIt is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.
Maurice Merleau-PontyEach one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.
Theodore RooseveltSome of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same
Barbara KingsolverA pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
Benjamin RushKissed mouth don't lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.
Giovanni BoccaccioLike ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.
Ihara SaikakuIf you make a sale, you can earn a commission. If you make a friend, you can earn a fortune!
Jeffrey GitomerI am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.
Napoleon BonaparteFortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Francis BaconNothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.
Jean de la BruyereThe good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
Jean de La FontaineIt is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.
Michel de Montaigne...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.
Niccolo MachiavelliThe cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.
F. Scott FitzgeraldMariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
PlatoGood fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
Alice HoffmanThe methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.
Antoine RivarolIt is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.
Chapman CohenTake too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.
HoraceIf we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.
Ihara SaikakuIt is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.
Placido DomingoIt is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
TacitusWill Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest terms?
William ShakespeareThere are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs.
Charles Caleb Coltonthe Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune.
Drew KarpyshynSomething is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]
HoraceEvery man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]
OvidAny one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.
Ammianus MarcellinusNo joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.
Charles Francis RichterFortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.
Christian Nestell BoveeCovetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.
Frances OsborneThe moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.
Francois de La RochefoucauldMost men I know, pissed away their fortunes. I'm the only one I know, that made a fortune pissin'
Frank CostelloThe wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.
Jean Antoine Petit-SennFortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.
William ShakespeareFortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.
Bob DylanMost of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonI'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.
David AttenboroughGood and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.
Francois de La RochefoucauldTo how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!
Jean de la BruyereWork hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.
Jim RohnHow do you make a small fortune in the wine business? Start with a large fortune and buy a winery.
Kevin ZralyNever grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.
Maynard Owen WilliamsFortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
Miguel de CervantesHappy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.
Robert SoutheyGreat is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.
AristotleOne's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
BoethiusI've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.
Daniel BooneMen's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.
Francois de La RochefoucauldMisfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.
Janette RallisonHe who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.
Jim DavisI have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.
Mikhail TalTranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
Seneca the YoungerA broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.
OvidWhat cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
Baron de MontesquieuI see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.
Deanna RaybournAll the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.
Dolly PartonIt is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.
Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.
RumiIn show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.
Steve GuttenbergThe greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
William HazlittCease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.
Horace