Only the Famous and Selected 'Fortune'Best Quotes

Quote : "Fair season maketh all things fair"

(Author : Sophocles , Book : Oedipus Rex , Quote ID :1160)

Quote : "Blest are those
Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled
That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger
To sound what stop she please"

(Author : William Shakespeare , Book : Hamlet-Act III, Scene II , Quote ID :1328)

Quote : "This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
That even our loves should with our fortunes change"

(Author : William Shakespeare , Book : Hamlet-Act III, Scene II , Quote ID :1332)

Quote : "How all occasions do inform against me
And spur my dull revenge!"

(Author : William Shakespeare , Book : Hamlet-Act IV, Scene III , Quote ID :1343)

Quote : "Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?"

(Author : Ernest Hemingway , Book : Old Man And the Sea , Quote ID :5028)

Quote : "The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own."

(Author : Plato , Book : The Republic, Book I , Quote ID :8066)

Quote : "He who has relied least on fortune is established the strongest."

(Author : Niccolo Machiavelli , Book : The Prince, Chapter VI , Quote ID :8137)

Quote : "I hold it to be true that Fortune is the arbiter of one-half of our actions,but that she still leaves us to direct the other half, or perhaps a little less."

(Author : Niccolo Machiavelli , Book : The Prince, Chapter XXV , Quote ID :8166)

Quote : "Fortune being changeful and mankind steadfast in their ways, so long as the two are in agreement men are successful, but unsuccessful when they fall out."

(Author : Niccolo Machiavelli , Book : The Prince, Chapter XXV , Quote ID :8168)

Quote : "It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her."

(Author : Niccolo Machiavelli , Book : The Prince, Chapter XXV , Quote ID :8169)

Quote : "All men, or the larger number of them, who have performed great deeds in the world, and excelled all others in their day, have had their birth and beginning in baseness and obscurity; or have been aggrieved by Fortune in some outrageous way."

(Author : Niccolo Machiavelli , Book : The Prince, Chapter XXVI , Quote ID :8174)

Quote : "HE THAT hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises."

(Author : Francis Bacon , Book : Essay, Of Marriage And Single Life , Quote ID :8203)

Quote : "Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves."

(Author : Francis Bacon , Book : Essay, Of Great Place , Quote ID :8232)

Quote : "FORTUNE is like the market; where many times if you can stay a little, the price will fall."

(Author : Francis Bacon , Book : Essay, Of Fortune , Quote ID :8255)

Quote : "No one by strength of arm can fortune find:
Tis labour lost?"

(Author : Sheikh Saadi , Book : Gulistan , Quote ID :8348)

Quote : "Hast thou two hundred virtues on each hair ?
With adverse fate thou still wilt badly fare".

(Author : Sheikh Saadi , Book : Gulistan , Quote ID :8349)

Quote : "Though more than fate supplies we ne'er can gain, Yet must we strive that portion to obtain".

(Author : Sheikh Saadi , Book : Gulistan , Quote ID :8353)

Quote : "Hast thou two hundred virtues on each hair ?
With adverse fate thou still wilt badly fare."

(Author : Sheikh Saadi , Book : Gulistan , Quote ID :8354)

Quote : "Who for their kinsmen no affection have,
On them the star of fortune ne'er will shine."

(Author : Sheik Saadi , Book : Gulistan , Quote ID :8367)