Fortune Quotes · Page 24

The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune.

— Philip Sidney

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

— William Shakespeare

Fortune seized at the right moment gives victory.

— Alexander Suvorov

“Fortune’s a fickle wench. She can knee you in the groin at any time.”

— Isolde Martyn

“Fortune, he thought, follows the already fortunate.”

— Terry Pratchett

Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.

— Aeschylus

“God's prayer-line is not a wheel of fortune or lottery for the indolent.”

— Bryant McGill

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

— Francis Bacon

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan…

— Herodotus

“Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect…

— George D Boardman

What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found…

— Robbin Crosby

The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Quite often the things that fascinated you from childhood are the very things that will bring you fame and fortune.

— Tassel Daley

He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.

— Jim Davis

Every man is the architect of his own fortunes, but the neighbors superintend the construction.

— George Ade

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“I am the only one of us who brings in any money. the other two cannot make money fortune telling. this is…

— neil gaiman

Business schools make a fortune forcing their students to take in a HUGE amount of information. The majority of it is theoretical.…

— Josh Kaufman

Nothing can prepare you for the all-consuming nature of motherhood, and I am very aware of my good fortune, as I spent…

— Mariella Frostrup

Richard Price, who has made a fortune writing fake ghetto books, says he takes a cab into the ghetto, transcribes Black speech…

— Ishmael Reed

If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece,…

— Simonides

The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have…

— Laurence Sterne

God has to let you be there, and then you just have to have good fortune for whatever reason. I'm enjoying every…

— Randy Owen

The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free; our minds, our…

— Earl Nightingale

The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Myself--a prince by fortune of my birth, Near to the king in blood, and near in love Till you did make him…

— William Shakespeare

Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive…

— John Carroll

We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily…

— Karl Marlantes

Having had the good fortune to serve beside her on both courts, I can attest that her opinions are always thoroughly considered,…

— Antonin Scalia

“Man is at the mercy of events. Life is a perpetual succession of events, and we must submit to it. We never…

— Victor Hugo

“Today is an ephemeral ghost... A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time…

— Vera Nazarian

“Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy”

— Jason Fried

My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune.

— Nicole Holofcener

Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The fortune of the man who sits also sits”

— Philip José Farmer

The best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a big one.

— Junior Johnson

Fortune confounds the wise, And when they least expect it turns the dice.

— John Dryden

The fortune of nations has often depended on accidents . . .

— Edward Gibbon

Every man is the maker of his own fortune

— Gertrude Stein