Famous Fortune Quotes

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

Emily Dickinson

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

Publilius Syrus

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

Quintilian

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

Walt Whitman

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

Plutarch

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Miguel de Cervantes

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Samuel Johnson

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

George Gordon Byron

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Euripides

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

Cicero

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Quintilian

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

Ausonius

It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.

Torquato Tasso

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

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

Carlo Goldoni

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

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