Fortune Quotes
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It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards.
Jose Rizal
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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 -
All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.
Edouard Rene de Laboulaye -
Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.
Plutarch -
Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, just like a poet, sometimes assigns the leading role, sometimes that of the supporting role; sometimes that of a king, sometimes that of a beggar. Do not, therefore, being a supporting actor, desire the role of the lead.
Bion of Borysthenes -
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
Sophocles -
I've never had good fortune with sequels. Everyone says this time is going to be better. And then I've done them and they've just been not - they weren't better.
Sandra Bullock
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Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
Sophocles -
Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
Jane Austen -
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve in garrets, nor wear rags - at least in America.
Eliza Leslie -
Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.
Charlotte Bronte
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.
Honore de Balzac -
If you have no family or friends to aid you . . . turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune.
Horace Greeley -
Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
Thomas Hobbes -
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
William Shakespeare -
May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.
William Shenstone
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When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
“Each man is the architect of his own fortune.”
Appius Claudius Caecus -
I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then life suddenly comes into focus for me. And, ah, there stand my kids.
Lee Iacocca -
Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.
John Harington