Fortune Quotes: Wise Words on Luck and Destiny (Page 3)

"Fortune favors the bold"

"No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune"

"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, Poet

"Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much"

Horace, Poet

"A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them"

Horace, Poet

"A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune"

Horace, Poet

"We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give"

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

"The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune"

William Penn, Leader

"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience"

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

"The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

"Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune"

Aeschylus, Playwright

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

Douglas William Jerrold, Dramatist

"If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay"

Sallust, Historian

"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

"Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue"

Anatole France, Novelist

"When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

"It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other"

Petrarch, Poet

"How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!"

Petrarch, Poet

"Action makes more fortune than caution"

Charlotte Whitton, Politician

"Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune"

Owen Glendower, Royalty

"The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

"There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

"I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within"

Plautus, Playwright

"It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training"

Ulysses S. Grant, President

"Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever"

Herodotus, Historian

"Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players and that's no good for our youngsters coming through"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!"

John Dryden, Poet

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