Fortune Quotes

1539 Fortune quotes by 990 unique authors

Action makes more fortune than caution. — Luc de Clapiers
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune. — Henry David Thoreau
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its… — Seneca the Younger
Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market. — Jason Calacanis
In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience -… — John F. Kennedy
Fortune favours the audacious. — Desiderius Erasmus
Long experience has taught me that the crux of my fortunes is whether I can radiate good will toward my audience. There is only one… — Howard Thurston
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and,… — Charles Sanders Peirce
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. — Boethius
Women are leaders everywhere you look - from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads… — Nancy Pelosi
Do all the other things, the ambitious things-travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes...but as you do, to… — George Saunders
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a… — Benjamin Franklin
History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art. — Johann Gustav Droysen
Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune. — Seneca the Younger
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances. — Aristotle
No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Fortune favours the bold. — Aristotle
He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as… — Simone Weil
We do not know what really good or bad fortune is. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Musicians should never forget that we're blessed. We have a special gift that people can enjoy through us. We've had the good fortune to receive… — Ed Thigpen
Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. ... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an… — Emma Goldman
Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes. — George Santayana
Fortune and love favor the brave. — Unknown Author

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