Machiavelli Fortune Quotes

#1. It is not, in Calvin's view, that we sin because we believe the wrong things; it is, rather, that we believe the wrong things because we sin.

Russell D. Moore

#2. It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#3. A wise prince then ... should never be idle in times of peace but should industriously lay up stores of which to avail himself in times of adversity so that when fortune abandons him he may be prepared to resist her blows.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#4. To defeat Fortune, men must anticipate such evils before they arise, and take prudent steps to avoid them. When the waters have already risen, it is too late to build dikes and embankments.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#5. Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#6. I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.

Dick Schaap

#7. Men can assist Fortune but not oppose her; they can weave her schemes but they cannot break them.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#8. We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#9. When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#10. It is in reference to Pope Julius that Machiavelli moralizes on the resemblance between Fortune and women, and concludes that it is the bold rather than the cautious man that will win and hold them both.

W.K. Marriott

#11. Mags, I don't know how many more times I will have to say this, but here it goes. You're amazing, you deserve the best, and I want nothing more than to be whatever you need me to be.

Kristen Hope Mazzola

#12. The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#13. do not let our princes accuse fortune for the loss of their principalities after so many years' possession, but rather their own sloth, because in quiet times they never thought there could be a change (it is a common defect in man not to make any provision in the calm against the tempest), and

Niccolo Machiavelli

#14. Nevertheless, that our freewill may not be altogether extinguished, I think it may be true that fortune is the ruler of half our actions, but that she allows the other half or a little less to be governed by us.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#15. Declare this smite time, extracting precious gems and wholly hours you share to fruitcake a friend so dear.

Bradley Chicho

#16. I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#17. In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#18. Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#19. Oh, it's already on Facebook. I didn't feel the need to ask, you are mine...

Amy Rachel Thompson

#20. When he turned on the tape-transport once more, Arctor was saying, "
as near as I can figure out, God is dead."
Luckman answered, "I didn't know He was sick.

Philip K. Dick

#21. Virtue gives birth to tranquility, tranquility to leisure, leisure to disorder, disorder to ruin ... and similarly from ruin, order is born, from order virtue, from virtue, glory and good fortune.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#22. Walk in the path of light towards the heavens.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. We are all born with an innate understanding of interpersonal equity - the idea that if you lend me your rake today, I'll respond in kind when you come to borrow my shovel tomorrow. Or nearly all of us are born with that. Psychopaths aren't.

Jeffrey Kluger

#24. Those who solely by good fortune become princes from being private citizens have little trouble in rising, but much in keeping atop; they have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#25. Set down among these lice, this is how I keep the mold from my brain and find release from Fortune's malice. I am content to have her beat me down this way to see if she won't become ashamed.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#26. One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#27. It behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#28. Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

Jennifer Donnelly

#29. we should expect the best in people.

Carrie Jones

#30. It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#31. The opportunity to truly Live doesn't wait. Either We USE it or We LOSE it.-RVM

R.v.m.

#32. (About Cesare Borgia) What cruelties were not the result of his? Who could count all his crimes? Such was the man that Machiavel prefers to all the great geniuses of his time, and to the heroes of antiquity, and of which he finds the life and action make a good example for those that fortune favors.

Frederick The Great

#33. Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.

Niccolo Machiavelli