Fortune Quotes
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid -
Blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please.
William Shakespeare
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The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.
O. Henry -
In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.
Octavia E. Butler -
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
Francis Bacon -
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Sallust -
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
Socrates -
I can't watch my first audition because it makes me too upset. I just think it is really sad. I look at myself and don't recognize myself. I do think fame and fortune changes people.
Rebecca Ferguson
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson -
Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
Friedrich Schiller -
Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
E. Joseph Cossman -
Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
Aristotle -
That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.
Mike Tyson -
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Baltasar Gracian
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
Ovid -
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
Mae West -
Fortune smiles on some, and lets the others go free.
Don Henley The Eagles -
Fortune favours the bold.
Aristotle -
Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
Xavier Niel -
Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
M. J. Hyland
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
Laura San Giacomo -
I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
Little Richard -
I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.
Sir Isaac Brock KB -
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
Tecumseh