69 Fortune Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing fortune sayings.
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Short Fortune Sayings
“Fortune does not so much change men, as it unmasks them.” —Unknown
“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.” —Mario Puzo
“By working one can bend fortune. She is fond of crafty men.” —Gustave Flaubert
“Fortune and misfortune are two buckets in the same well.” —German Proverb
“Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.” —E.A. Bucchianeri
“A great fortune is a great servitude.” —Seneca
“Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.” —Eric Butterworth
“Fortune favors the prepared mind.” —Louis Pasteur
“Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.” —Sophocles
“Every misfortune is a fortune.” —Lailah Gifty Akita
“Man’s life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.” —Cicero
“Every man is the architect of his own fortune.” —Unknown
“When fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your teeth.” —Iranian Proverb
“Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.” —Laurence J. Peter
“Soldiers of fortune will always die broken hearted.” —Anthony T. Hincks
“When fortune smiles, I smile to think, How quickly she will frown.” —Robert Southwell
“One’s best fortune, or, their worst is their spouse.” —Unknown
“Change yourself and fortune will change.” —Portuguese
“I made my fortune by being able to spot a certain kind of man.” —Ayn Rand
“A wise man turns chance into good fortune.” —Thomas Fuller
“Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.” —Virgil
“Fortune befriends the bold.” —Emily Dickinson
“Even the wheel of fortune can run over you.” —Ljupka Cvetanova
“In bad fortune hold out, in good hold in.” —Unknown
“Fame and fortune are nothing if you’re not happy and healthy.” —Erika Slezak
“He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.” —Benjamin Franklin
“Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.” —William Shakespeare
“A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.” —Juvenal
“Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.” —Euripides
Fortune Sayings
“It cost nothing to think bigger than you are, BUT cost a fortune to think less of yourself.” —Olawale Daniel
“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
“Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.” —P. T. Barnum
“Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“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
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” —Jim Rohn
“I often think how unfairly life’s good fortune is sometimes distributed.” —Leo Tolstoy
“The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.” —William Penn
“Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.” —Francis Bacon
“The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.” —Francis Bacon
“It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.” —Francois De La Rochefoucau
“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
“Nothing in life will ever attract good people and good fortune to us than our good attitude.” —Bamigboye Olurotimi
“You will never win fame and fortune unless you invent big ideas.” —David Ogilvy
“The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.” —William Hazlitt
“Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.” —Francis Quarles
“Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune’s always here.” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration.” —Evan Esar
“Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.” —James Russell Lowell
“There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.” —Thomas Carlyle
“Fame and fortune await the few with the faith to fall forward despite frustrating failures.” —Orrin Woodward
“Fortune always leaves some door open in disasters whereby to come at a remedy.” —Miguel de Cervantes
“Fortune is like glass–the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.” —Publilius Syrus
“Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.” —Francis Bacon
“Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.” —Charles V
“The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.” —Torquato Tasso
“Men can assist Fortune but not oppose her; they can weave her schemes but they cannot break them.” —Niccolò Machiavelli
“The wheel of fortune turns around incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.” —Confucius
“Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.” —Francis Bacon
Top Ten Fortune Sayings
Here you will find top ten fortune sayings selected by our team.
- “When fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your teeth.” —Iranian Proverb
- “Man’s life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.” —Cicero
- “Nothing in life will ever attract good people and good fortune to us than our good attitude.” —Bamigboye Olurotimi
- “Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.” —P. T. Barnum
- “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
- “Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.” —Francis Bacon
- “Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.” —Mahatma Gandhi
- “One’s best fortune, or, their worst is their spouse.” —Unknown
- “The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.” —William Penn
