Greatest Good Fortune

Fortune favors the bold. - Ennius

Fortune favors the brave. - Publius Terence

I made a fortune getting out too soon. - J P Morgan

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. - Benjamin Disraeli

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. - Oliver Goldsmith

Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac

Every man is the architect of his own fortune. - Sallust

Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune. - Lady Murasaki

Fortune favors the bold but abandons the timid. - Latin Proverb

The New Year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. - George William Curtis

When I go I'll take New Year's Eve with me. - Guy Lombardo

Life is a wheel of fortune and it's my turn to spin it. - Tupac

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's. - Henry Moore

Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time. - Jean Paul Richter

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. - Rainer M. Rilke

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions! - Joey Adams

Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. - Unknown

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. - Michel de Montaigne

Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. - Abraham Lincoln

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

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. - Oscar Wilde

No matter how much fame and fortune you achieve, don't get wrapped up in yourself. - Dal Richards

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it. - Andrew Carnegie

So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great good fortune. - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. - John Burroughs

Obamacare is, number one and maybe least importantly, it's costing the country a fortune. - Donald Trump

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. - G K Chesterton

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits. - Andre Gide

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. - Bill Vaughan

An individual starts off by facing his problem with resolution, but a convention saves the resolution for the end. - Unknown

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit. - Jonathan Swift

Whatever good or bad fortune may come our way, we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. - Hermann Hesse

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. - Francis Bacon

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining. - Leonard Bernstein

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. - James Agate

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. - Samuel Johnson

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up. - Harrison Ford

New Year's Day ... now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. - Mark Twain