80 Inspirational Quotes on Fortune to Inspire Some Good Fortune
Quotes on Fortune
“Lightning never strikes the same place twice.” —P. H. Myers (1857)
“The new boat will find the old stones.” —Estonian
“When fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your teeth.” —Iranian
“He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.”
“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.” —Honore de Balzac
“Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.” —William Shakespeare
“Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.” —Arthur Schopenhauer
“Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.” —Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
“Fortune does not so much change men, as it unmasks them.” —Anonymous
“Fortune is like glass–the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.” —Publilius Syrus
“Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.”
“No man’s fortune can be an end worthy of his being.” —Francis Bacon
“It is possible to have too much of a good thing.” —Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
“Venture a small fish to catch a great one.” —English (on buying and selling)
Inspirational Quotes On Fortune
“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.” —Benjamin Disraeli
“Every man is the architect of his own fortune.” —Anonymous
“Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.” —Suzanne Necker
“I don’t believe in luck. We make our own luck.” —Joyce Brothers
“My good fortune lies in having found my life.” —Elyn R. Saks
“Fame and fortune are nothing if you’re not happy and healthy.” —Erika Slezak
“Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.” —Virgil
“By working one can bend fortune. She is fond of crafty men.” —Gustave Flaubert
“You will never win fame and fortune unless you invent big ideas.” —David Ogilvy
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” —Jim Rohn
“Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration.” —Evan Esar
“From my tribe I take nothing. I am the maker of my own fortune.” —Tecumseh
“It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.” —Francois De La Rochefoucau
“There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.” —Euripides
“We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.” —Seneca
“Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.” —Jim Rohn
“It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.” —Sheryl Sandberg
“Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.” —Francis Bacon
“One of the most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.” —Archibald Rutledge
“No matter how much money, fame and fortune you have, it doesn’t mean nothing if it’s not connected with love.” —Adam Lambert
“It’s not that I’m not grateful for all this attention. It’s just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune.” —Robert Fulghum
“When you truly love yourself, you do not envy the good fortune of others but trust that there is enough love and abundance to go around.” —Dr. Debra Reble
“I’m working full-time on my job and part time on my fortune. But it won’t be long before I’m working full-time on my fortune – can you imagine what my life will look like?” —Jim Rohn
“To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.” —Chinese Proverb
Good Fortune Quotes
“No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect.” —Antoinette Deshoulieres
“Great actions are not always true sons of great and mighty resolutions.” —Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
“We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.” —Charles Kuralt
“Good fortune and evil fortune come to all things alike in this world of time.” —Moasi
“I’ve seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I’ve felt all its favors and found its decay.” —Alison Cockburn
“Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.” —Vincent Voiture
“The day of fortune is like a harvest day, we must be busy when the corn is ripe.” —Goethe
“The brave man carves out his fortune and every man is the son of his own works.” —Miguel De Cervantes
“It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.” —John Dryden
“Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.” —Charles V
“If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.” —Francis Bacon
“The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit.” —Jonathan Swift
“The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.” —E.H. Chapin
“Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.” —Sir Walter Scott
“Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.” —Amelia E. Barr
“Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.” —Julius Caesar
“If a man’s fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.” —Horace
“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
“We make a goddess of Fortune … and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.” —Charles Caleb Colton
“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.” —Francois de la Rochefoucauld
“Fortune, the great commanders of the world, Hath diverse ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To other some, deserving without honor; Some wit, some wealth,–and some, wit without wealth; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.” —George Chapman
“The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a number of smaller 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.” —Francis Bacon, Sr.
Quotes about Luck and Good Fortune
“True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.” —John Hay
“Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it’s because you’re talented.” —Whoopi Goldberg
“There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.” —Dr. Armand Hammer
“If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.” —Bette Davis
“Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.” —Aaron Allston
“When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.” —Daniel Radcliffe
“I believe you make your own luck. My motto is ‘It’s always a mistake not to go.” —Tom Brokaw
“Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.” —Hunter S. Thompson
“We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want – or near enough.” —Roald Dahl
“It’s hard to detect good luck — it looks so much like something you’ve earned.” —Frank A. Clark
“The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn’t say.” —Will Cuppy
“I broke a mirror in my house. I’m supposed to get seven years of bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.” —Steven Wright
“When it comes to luck you make your own.” —Bruce Springsteen
“The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.” —Douglas Macarthur
“Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it, and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work — and realizing what opportunity is and what isn’t.” —Lucille Ball
“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.” —Oprah Winfrey
“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.” —Earl Wilson
“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.” —Dalai Lama XIV
“Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along — or don’t.” —Harrison Ford
“Luck can only get you so far.” —J. K. Rowling
“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.” —Ray Kroc
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” —Cormac McCarthy
“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you. All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.” —Mark Cuban
“No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot.” —Chi Chi Rodriguez
Short Quotes about Fortune
“Fortune favors the bold.” —Aristotle
“Fortune’s wheel is ever turning.” —Proverb
“I myself am good fortune.” —Anonymous
“Fortune befriends the bold.” —Emily Dickinson
“Your faith is your fortune.” —Anonymous
“Fortune favors the prepared mind.” —Louis Pasteur
“Fortune and love favor the brave.” —Ovid
“When fortune knocks open the door.” —Proverb
“Fortune sides with him who dares.” —Virgil
“A great mind becomes a great fortune.” —Seneca
“Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.” —Oliver Goldsmith
“A great fortune is a great slavery.” —Seneca
“Change yourself and fortune will change.” —Portuguese
“Good things come when you least expect them.” —Unknown
“May the wind be always at your back.” —Unknown
“Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.”
“When fortune calls, offer her a chair.” —Yiddish
“A wise man turns chance into good fortune.” —Thomas Fuller
“There is frequently a poison in fortune’s gifts.” —Edward Counsel
“Fortune and misfortune are two buckets in the same well.”