Fortune Quotes
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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.
Plato
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No man actually owns a fortune. It owns him.
Amadeo Giannini
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When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
Miguel de Cervantes
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What else may hap, to time I will commit.
William Shakespeare
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Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave.
Brian Tracy
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Before I was fourteen I planned to leave school forever, and trust to fortune to get an education. At that time it did not occur to me that I would need to study the English language and acquire a knowledge of geography, history and other subjects so necessary to understanding the modern world. That was to come many years later…
R. M. Williams
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A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.
George Lillo
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
Sophocles
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The truth brings no man a fortune.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.
Honore de Balzac
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I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.
Andriy Shevchenko
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Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogeneous. Now it's too complex, it's a mix. Different cultures in collision. I think it starts to be necessary to have a government institution to deal with cultural affairs.
Gilberto Gil
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Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
Sophocles
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Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.
John Harington
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Jonathan Swift
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It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing.
Bill Clinton
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I always just wanted to have the wherewithal to make another record. I never really dreamt of fortune or fame, because it seemed so unlikely. I'm much more interested in people's perceptions of me than what my life is really like. It appears that some people think it's all cocaine and caviar for Okkervil River. And it's not. I'm making a little bit more than I was making at the video store right now.
Will Sheff Okkervil River
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The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.
William Dampier
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Snapchat's ramp reminded us of another mobile app Benchmark had the good fortune to back at an early stage: Instagram.
Mitch Lasky
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Nothing of fame or fortune can compensate for the spiritual suffering that one possessing such qualities has to endure.
Edwin Booth
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...the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.
Jane Austen
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There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Euripides