Fortune Quotes
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“Each man is the architect of his own fortune.”
Appius Claudius Caecus -
The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.
Harrison Ford
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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.
Plutarch -
Now the fair goddess, Fortune, Fall deep in love with thee, and her great charms Misguide thy opposers' swords!
William Shakespeare -
Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune.
Susan Hill -
It's really the creature of my own making from top to bottom. I appreciate that. And the good fortune, the perseverance, having the stamina to stick around longer than everyone else even after people write you off - that's always been a good motivating force in my life.
Ariel Pink -
For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds of thousands of other women are now giving all the time at their command. No class of men in our own or any other country has made one-tenth the effort nor sacrificed one-tenth as much for the vote.
Carrie Chapman Catt -
Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.
Seneca the Younger
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To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.
William Boyd -
Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home.
Ava Gardner -
My pride fell with my fortunes.
William Shakespeare -
I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.
Bridget Carpenter -
Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
Seneca the Younger
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
Sallust -
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
Euripides -
If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.
James Boswell -
Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.
William Hazlitt -
Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.
Walter Wykes -
I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.
George Eliot
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Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.
William Shakespeare -
Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.
William Shakespeare -
Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
Steve Jobs -
Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a nation, or city, or empire; or does fortune give this as an example to the victor also of the uncertainty of human affairs, which never continue in one stay? For what time can there be for us mortals to feel confident, when our victories over others especially compel us to dread fortune, and while we are exulting, the reflection that the fatal day comes now to one, now to another, in regular succession, dashes our joy.
Plutarch