Fortune Quotes

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, “I shall today be uppermost.

Confucius.

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry, and is as often trundling in a wheelbarrow as lolling in a coach and six.
Goldsmith.

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune; favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.

Bacon.

We make our fortunes, and we all them fate.

Alroy.

Fortune is like the market, where many times if you can stay a little the price will fall; and again it is sometimes like a Sibyl’s offer, which at first offereth the commodity at full, then consumeth part and part, and still holdeth up the price.

Bacon.

May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.

Shenstone.

Human life is more governed by fortune than by reason.

Hume.

Fortune does not change men; it only unmakes them.

Riccoboni.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together; so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

Bacon.

We should manage our fortune as we do our health enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.

Rochefoucauld.

Ovid finely compares a broken fortune to a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it is obliged to sustain. When a man’s circumstances are such that he has no occasion to borrow, he finds numbers willing to lend him; but should his wants be such that he sues for a trifle, it is two to one whether he will be trusted with the smallest sum.

Goldsmith.

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 files out at the window.

Montesquieu.

“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.

Every man is the marker of his own fortune.

Tattler.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Rousseau.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

Saadi.

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

J.R. Lowell.

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

Ben Jonson.

The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.

Goldsmith.

High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.

Rochefoucauld.

Fortune, to show us her power, and abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.

Montaigne.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

Publius Syrus.

It requires greater virtues to support good than bad fortune.

Rochefoucauld.

There is nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a great one. Poverty treads upon the heels of great and unexpected riches.

Bruyere.