Best Fortune Quotes

Fortune befriends the bold.

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Fortune sides with he who dares

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.

An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

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.

I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same 50% rate. Half the time I get what I want, half the time I don’t… Same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe…same as the Voodoo Lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat’s testicles, it’s all the same: 50-50. So just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself.

One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.

Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. The men who have won fame and fortune through having an idea are those who devoted every ounce of their strength and every dollar they could muster to putting it into operation. Ford had a big idea, but he had to sweat and suffer and sacrifice to make it work.

Fortune in men has some small diff’rence made,One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade,The cobbler apron’d, and the parson gown’d,The friar hooded, and the monarch crown’d.

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all.

In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man’s carnal truth is handled as something artificial.

Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.

What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name. Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.

Fortune comes well to all that comes not late.

Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

We [entrepreneurs] required that you leave us free to function — free to think and work as we choose … — free to earn our own profits and make our own fortunes … Such was the price we asked, which you chose to reject as too high.

Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am resolved to follow where you lead.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it’s less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

Every new generation of LGBT Americans needs to be inspired by leaders who come out – whether in Congress, the nonprofit sector, the NFL, or corner offices of Fortune 100 companies.