Fortune Quotes · Page 59

Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

— Ovid

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

— Sophocles

When I pursued music, I was told, 'oh, he's just pursuing fame and fortune and he's left the call of Christ in…

— Guy Sebastian

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the…

— Anonymous

“Those who seek to make great fortune without making great effort will soon commit a great crime.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

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

— William Shakespeare

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is…

— Sophocles

It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.

— Tacitus

Press on! If Fortune play thee false To-day, tomorrow she'll be true; Whom now she sinks she now exalts, Taking old gifts…

— Benjamin

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them.…

— Amelia Barr

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but…

— Francis Bacon

If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the…

— James Surowiecki

The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in…

— Roger L'Estrange

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and…

— Charles Simmons

“When I was twelve, a fortune teller told me that my one true love would die young and leave me all alone..…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be…

— Bruce Feirstein

There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his church. His…

— John Connolly

The truth is our immigration system is worse than anybody ever realized. But the facts aren't known because the media won't report…

— Donald Trump

What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall, Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all. Let muckworms who…

— Charles Churchill

On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having…

— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the…

— Marcel Proust

Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the…

— Rebecca Solnit

In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely…

— George Washington Carver

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

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

— Henry Clay

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

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

— Ptolemy

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

— Ovid

Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune…

— Saadi

Perhaps the biggest lesson that I would say is the one to learn is not to let fame and fortune get inside…

— Andrew Ridgeley

I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.

— Neil Strauss

No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and…

— Patty Duke

Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]

— Plautus

...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.

— Ally Carter

Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? . . . Whether we can afford it…

— John Gay

“Fame and fortune await the few with the faith to fall forward despite frustrating failures.”

— Orrin Woodward

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.

— Jorge Luis Borges