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He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
- Franklin, Benjamin
Fortune Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Fortune

1.
In bad fortune hold out, in good hold in.
Proverb, German

2.
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
Bacon, Francis

3.
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

4.
I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.
Ovid

5.
Every individual is the architect of his own fortune.
Claudius, Appius

6.
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
Twain, Mark

7.
Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
Voiture, Vincent

8.
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

9.
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
Lowell, James Russell

10.
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
Goldsmith, Oliver

11.
Fortune does not so much change men, as it unmasks them.

12.
I do have big tits. Always had 'em--pushed 'em up, whacked 'em around. Why not make fun of 'em? I've made a fortune with 'em.
Parton, Dolly

13.
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Franklin, Benjamin

14.
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
Quarles, Francis

15.
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
Ruskin, John

16.
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
Pasteur, Louis

17.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound by shallows and in misery. [Julius Caesar]
Shakespeare, William

18.
Speedy exception is the mother of good fortune.
Proverb

19.
Each man is the smith of his own fortune.
Caecus, Appius Claudius

20.
Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
Charles V

21.
Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
Syrus, Publilius

22.
Good fortune and evil fortune come to all things alike in this world of time.
Moasi

23.
Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
Ovid

24.
Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.
Butterworth, Eric

25.
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
Horace

26.
Against change of fortune set a brave heart.
Proverb, French

27.
Fortune sides with him who dares.
Virgil

28.
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
Horace

29.
Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.
A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
Proverb, Chinese

31.
Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.
Proverb, Latin

32.
One's best fortune, or, their worst is their spouse.
Proverb

33.
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
Jerrold, Douglas William

34.
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
Dryden, John


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