Fortune Quotes
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There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Euripides -
Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
Ben Harper
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In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.
Aristotle -
Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
Jules Verne -
I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
One good idea is all you need to start a fortune.
Brian Tracy -
Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, how to be free from it, that's the point. Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
Francis Quarles -
Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations.
Charlotte Bronte
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The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
Demosthenes -
Nothing of fame or fortune can compensate for the spiritual suffering that one possessing such qualities has to endure.
Edwin Booth -
The truth brings no man a fortune.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
Seneca the Younger -
Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
Sophocles -
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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When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
Baltasar Gracian -
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 -
The thing of courage As rous'd with rage doth sympathise, And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key, Retorts to chiding fortune.
William Shakespeare -
I had the good fortune early on to cast some really great people that were not just characters, they had character.
Don Coscarelli -
A total reverse of fortune, coming unawares upon a man who 'stood in high degree,' happy and apparently secure,-such was the tragic fact to the mediaeval mind. It appealed strongly to common human sympathy and pity; it startled also another feeling, that of fear. It frightened men and awed them. It made them feel that man is blind and helpless, the plaything of an inscrutable power, called by the name of Fortune or some other name,-a power which appears to smile on him for a little, and then on a sudden strikes him down in his pride.
Andrew Cecil Bradley -
I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.
William H. Wharton
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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good – fortune.
William Hazlitt -
I had the great fortune to actually become friends with Sam [Fuller] and ultimately collaborate with him on White Dog, which we wrote together.
Curtis Hanson -
Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.
Ammianus Marcellinus -
Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau