Fortune Quotes

Fortune and Love befriend the bold.

Ovid

Fortune makes him fool whom she makes her darling.

Sir Francis Bacon

It is fortune not wisdom that rules man's life.

Cicero

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

Anonymous

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

Homer

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Douglas Jerrold

Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

Livy

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Sallust

O fortune fortune! all men call thee fickle.

William Shakespeare

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.

William Shakespeare

Luck is being ready for the chance.

If you were born lucky even your rooster will lay eggs.

Russian proverb

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will but remember it didn't work for the rabbit!

Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.

J. Christopher Herold

Every man even the most blessed needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.

Vance Bourjaily

With luck on your side you can do without brains.

If fortune turns against you even jelly breaks your tooth.

Persian Proverb

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

William Shakespeare

Vexed sailors curse the rain For which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

Fortune favours the bold.

Terence

I make the most of all that comes And the least of all that goes.

If you do not expect it you will not find the unexpected for it is hard to find and difficult.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less travelled by And that has made all the difference.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance the chance will only make him ridiculous.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it will be a fish.

Ovid

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

The harder you work the luckier you get.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The luck of having talent is not enough one must also have a talent for luck.

In the field of observation chance favours the prepared mind.

The eternal struggle between failure and fortune is a fight not between mortal enemies but sparring partners. So fortune is improved by failure, and the reverse is also true.

Great fortune and peace of mind seldom live together.

[I]n other words, we should live with due knowledge of the course of things in the world. For whenever a man in any way loses self-control, or is struck down by a misfortune, grows angry, or loses heart, he shows in this way that he finds things different from what he expected, and consequently that he laboured under a mistake, did not know the world and life, did not know how at every step the will of the individual is crossed and thwarted by the chance of inanimate nature, by contrary aims and intentions, even by the malice inspired in others. Therefore either he has not used his reason to arrive at a general knowledge of this characteristic of life, or he lacks the power of judgement, when he does not again recognize in the particular what he knows in general, and when he is therefore surprised by it and loses his self-control. Thus every keen pleasure is an error, an illusion, since no attained wish can permanently satisfy, and also because every possession and every happiness is only lent by chance for an indefinite time, and can therefore be demanded back in the next hour. Thus both originate from defective knowledge. Therefore the wise man always holds himself aloof from jubilation and sorrow, and no event disturbs his ἀταραξία [ataraxia]."—from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Paye in two volumes: volume I, p. 88

Arthur Schopenhauer

The god abandons AntonyWhen at the hour of midnight an invisible choir is suddenly heard passingwith exquisite music, with voices ― Do not lament your fortune that at last subsides, your life’s work that has failed, your schemes that have proved illusions. But like a man prepared, like a brave man, bid farewell to her, to Alexandria who is departing. Above all, do not delude yourself, do not say that it is a dream, that your ear was mistaken. Do not condescend to such empty hopes. Like a man for long prepared, like a brave man, like the man who was worthy of such a city, go to the window firmly, and listen with emotion but not with the prayers and complaints of the coward (Ah! supreme rapture!) listen to the notes, to the exquisite instruments of the mystic choir,and bid farewell to her, to Alexandria whom you are losing.

Constantinos P. Cavafis

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

Sorcha MacMurrough

Fortune favors the brave."Another moment of silence. And then, Iolanthe found herself shouting at the top of her lungs, her voice nearly drowned by the bellow of all the rebels present, "And the brave make their own fortune!

We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has put me off. Why not Dr. Victor?

Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance' and 'coincidence.' For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman Law, it is administered with sub-human inefficiency.

It is in reference to Pope Julius that Machiavelli moralizes on the resemblance between Fortune and women, and concludes that it is the bold rather than the cautious man that will win and hold them both.

I dropped my gardening tools, threw my bicycle over a hedge and went in search of fortunes laid beneath the hangman’s noose.

Fame & fortune come with a price that fame finds insulting and fortune can't afford to pay back.

Fame for the lames, fortune for the brains.

Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.

Vālmīki

She couldn’t help but wonder at the events of recent days, and at how—even in the face of such misfortune, there was so much good,

Tamera Alexander

Risk is what you control and fortune is really all about risk. Bottom Line: Fortune comes from big money bets on very low probability events

Ziad K. Abdelnour

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

Say farewell to luck when winning. It is the way of the gamblers of reputation. Quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat. Lock up your winnings when they are enough, or when great. Continuous luck is always suspect; more secure is that which changes. Though half bitter and half sweet, it is more satisfying to the taste. The more luck pyramids, the greater the danger of slip and collapse. For luck always compensates her intensity by her brevity. Fortune wearies of carrying anyone long upon her shoulders.

Baltasar Gracián

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none. Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]

Marcus Valerius Martialis

Fortune frowns as often as he smiles, and you don’t want to be in his line of sight when he does.

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

Jalaluddin Rumi

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal

It's bad luck not to believe in luck.

Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependant upon it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure; and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard. You may die before you turn the next page.

What i'm saying is that the sun always rises. Fortune's a mix of good and bad luck. Like they say/ good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope.

Luck is not as random as you think.Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.

If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

Sun Tzu

In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

Benvenuto Cellini

No matter how much fame you get, no matter how much money you make, no matter how much admiration you get, nothing feels as monumental as when someone tells you that something you did changed their outlook on life.

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