Fortune quotes

Discover inspiring and thought-provoking quotes that explore the unpredictability and blessings of life on our Fortune category. Explore the wisdom of great minds on chance, destiny, and the beautiful journey of uncertainties. Find solace and encouragement amidst the twists and turns of fate.

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

- Ovid

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

- David Mallet

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

- Amelia Earhart

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

- Raymond Queneau

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fortune favours the bold.

- Virgil

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

- Thomas W. Higginson

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

- Lew Wallace

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

- Ayn Rand

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

- Plutarch

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

- Jim Cramer

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

- Eden Phillpotts

I believe in America. America's made my fortune.

- Mario Puzo

My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.

- Claire Bloom

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

- Arthur E. Waite

As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.

- Daniel Nathans

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

- Baltasar Gracian

I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.

- Hugh Laurie

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

- Ovid

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.

- Giacomo Casanova

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

- 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.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

- Sophocles

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

- Carlo Goldoni

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

- Jeremy Taylor

Fortune is either with you or it's not.

- Tom Araya

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

- Adam Baldwin