Motivational Quotes

Fortune

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

Best Quotes about Fortune

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

Moasi

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

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

Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.

Proverb, Latin

Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Ovid

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

10.

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

Proverb

11.

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Horace

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Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Quarles, Francis

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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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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Each man is the smith of his own fortune.

Caecus, Appius Claudius

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

Bacon, Francis

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Fortune sides with him who dares.

Virgil

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In bad fortune hold out, in good hold in.

Proverb, German

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Speedy exception is the mother of good fortune.

Proverb

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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

Lowell, James Russell

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Against change of fortune set a brave heart.

Proverb, French

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

Charles V

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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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

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

Voiture, Vincent

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Every individual is the architect of his own fortune.

Claudius, Appius

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Fortune favors the prepared mind.