Fortune Quotes · Page 51

There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

— William Shakespeare

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule…

— Homer

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

— Seneca the Younger

Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]

— Ovid

How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!

— Henry Clay

As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

— Ptolemy

When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.

— Joanna Garcia

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had…

— Napoleon Hill

I had great parents, and they trained me well and instilled great values in me. They also taught me common sense about…

— Ken Osmond

As if our happiness, our good fortune, might rub off, contestants ask us for a light: they brush up against us in…

— Kelly Link

Show me a country where the bombs had to fallShow me the ruins of buildings so tallAnd I'll show you a young…

— Phil Ochs

It's not the moment yet for me to enjoy my time as an actor, and as the time goes by, I feel…

— Park Bo-gum

Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and…

— Arthur Helps

Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know…

— Pindar

What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune…

— Oliver Goldsmith

If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless…

— Richard Dawkins

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain…

— Thomas Jefferson

In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate…

— Alice Meynell

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a…

— Plato

“Happy Families. What's that all about, eh? A bloody busted flush is what it is. You surround yourself with other people so…

— Mike Carey

“certain kind of good fortune generally attends self-made men to the last. It is their children of the first, or first and…

— Samuel Butler

“This is your life. This is yours. You can establish an exact inventory of your meager fortune, the precise balance sheet of…

— Georges Perec

See where Congress passed a two billion dollar bill to relieve bankers' mistakes. You can always count on us helping those who…

— Will Rogers

To long for fame and Fortune would be to rob your self of Love and family...Love your self better than that!

— Melchor Lim

Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless.

— John Dryden

The creams I use are not expensive. Nivea is just as good. Why waste a fortune?

— Sylvia Kristel

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a…

— John O. Brennan

Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of…

— Aesop

My goal has always been longevity. Not fame and fortune, just get a job and keep it.

— James Garner

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.”

— Napoleon Hill

I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.

— James Caan

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his…

— Miguel de Cervantes

I've had the good fortune to play characters that have a role-model thing to them.

— Jimmy Smits

“You know as well as I do that fortune never sends the best-case scenario our way You have way too much bad…

— Eoin Colfer

I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line.

— Mindy McCready

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and…

— Anonymous

“The less you indulge yourself now, the more you can indulge yourself in the future, when you have made your fortune.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert