Fortune Quotes

"Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty."
-Thomas Jefferson

"If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond."
-Ausonius

"Fortune is always on the side of the big battalions."
-Marie de Sevigne

"There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune."
-Jean Paul Getty

"Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them."
-Susanne Curchod Necker

"Fortune favors the brave."
-Virgil

"Every man is the architect of his own fortune."
-Sallust

"To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature."
-William Shakespeare

"He was guilty of nothing, except that he earned his own fortune and never forgot that it was his."
-Ayn Rand

"The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune."
-Amelia Earhart

"Depend not on fortune, but on conduct."
-Publilius Syrus

"The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends."
-Cicero

"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
-Cicero

"Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny."
-Alfred A. Montapert

"Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things."
-A. A. Milne

"Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance."
-Juvenal

"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
-Honore De Balzac

"Fortune helps him that's willing to help himself."
-French Proverb

"When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown."
-Robert Southwell

"I would by very suspicious of any utility company that raises a dividend. We're on the eve of deregulation, and that will cause competition in the area that is going to cost a fortune."
-Lou Ehrenkrantz

"Like my dear old friend Marie Dressler, my ugly mug has been my fortune."
-Wallace Beery

"I had the fortune to be drafted to a wonderful city. I fit in there perfectly... because... when you're drafted, you never know where you're going to end up-but there was no better place for me than Detroit."
-Barry Sanders

"Action makes more fortune than caution."
-Vauvenargues, Marquis De

"[The checks] will cost a fortune and point again to the dubious business decision to have such extravagant architecture."
-Margo Macdonald

"When fortune turns against you even jelly breaks your teeth."
-Iranian Proverb

"I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it."
-Mae West

"Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family."
-J. S. Bryan