Fortune Smiles Quotes

#1. When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.

Robert Southwell

#2. Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.

Decimius Magnus Ausonius

#3. Fortune smiles on some, and lets the others go free.

Don Henley

#4. Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes.

Edward Young

#5. Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

Sophocles

#6. Fortune, in fact, is a pestilent shrew, and, withal, an inexorable creditor; and though for a time she may be all smiles and courtesies, and indulge us in long credits, yet sooner or later she brings up her arrears with a vengeance, and washes out her scores with our tears.

Washington Irving

#7. Do you know the only way you can tell for sure the deer are there?" Mel shook his head. "By the wolves," he said.

Connie Willis

#8. Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.

Samuel Smiles

#9. And so thinking, she slipped not into sleep, but into that umbilical cord which connects sleeping and waking.

Stephen King

#10. Haters ... are all failures. It's 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater.

Joe Rogan

#11. One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.

Charlton Heston

#12. Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade;
When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees.
So Fortune's smiles the fickle crowd pursues,
But swift is gone whenever she veils her face.

Ovid

#13. Fortune frowns as often as he smiles, and you don't want to be in his line of sight when he does.

Amy Neftzger

#14. Scientists believe that every occurrence, including the affairs of human beings, is due to the laws of nature. Therefore a scientist cannot be inclined to believe that the course of events can be influenced by prayer, that is, by a supernaturally manifested wish.

Albert Einstein

#15. With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray,
Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode;
But now all smiles, and now again all frowns,
She's constant only in inconstancy.

Ovid

#16. The catch about not looking a gift horse in the mouth is that it may be a Trojan horse.

David Seller

#17. Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.

Richard De Bury

#18. Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

Will Rogers

#19. When small wounds are left untreated, they can fest and become far more serious injuries. -Mr. Kipling

Gabrielle Zevin

#20. Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.

Henry David Thoreau

#21. If you desire a joyful heart, dance daily.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. After all, the work isn't the point; the piece is.

Donald Judd

#23. When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush.

Ram Dass

#24. Character is itself a fortune.

Samuel Smiles

#25. All you have in life is your reputation: you may be very rich, but if you lose your good name, then you'll never be happy. The thought will always lurk at the back of your mind that people don't trust you.

Richard Branson

#26. If you help others with sincere motivation and sincere concern, that will bring you more fortune, more friends, more smiles, and more success. If you forget about others' rights and neglect others' welfare, ultimately you will be very lonely.

Dalai Lama