Quotes

Quotes about Fortune

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

Elizabeth Euripides

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

Edward Gibbon

It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune.

Thomas Gray

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

Charles V

A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.

Benjamin Rush

Every individual is the architect of his own fortune.

Appius Claudius

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Anita Brookner

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Anita Horace

Don't trust in fortune until you are in heaven.

Filipino Proverb

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

James Russell Lowell

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Vincent Voiture

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Vincent Voiture

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

Douglas Jerrold

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence.

John Dryden

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

Oliver Goldsmith

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Oliver Sallust

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Benjamin Franklin

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.

Mark Twain

It is the fortune of France. [Fr., C'est la fortune de France.]

Thomas Nicephorus