Fortune Quotes

Fortune favors the brave. (Terence)
Behind every great fortune there is a crime. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Fortune favors the bold. View quote
Virgil
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. View quote
Cicero
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. View quote
Petrarch
By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever. View quote
Laozi
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure! View quote
Petrarch
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The result showed that fortune helps the brave. View quote
Livy
It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task. (Livy)
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts. View quote
Livy
A great fortune is a great slavery. View quote
Seneca
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Make haste! The flood-tide of Fortune soon ebbs. View quote
Silius Italicus
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. View quote
Jane Austen
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. View quote
Jane Austen
Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. View quote
Publilius Syrus
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. (Jonathan Swift)
The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass. View quote
William Blake
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. View quote
Plutarch
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. View quote
Anatole France