Greatest Good Fortune

Fortune favors the bold. - Ennius

Fortune favors the brave. - Publius Terence

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

New Year's Day is every man's birthday. - Charles Lamb

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

Mexico's making a fortune off the United States. - Donald Trump

He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner. - Benjamin Franklin

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

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets. - William Thomas

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. - Lawrence J. Peter

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

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning. - Thomas Edison

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

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune. - Lew Wallace

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

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune. - Joseph Addison

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

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty. - John Selden

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. - Jim Rohn

A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. - Unknown

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

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody. - F Scott Fitzgerald

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. - Thomas W. Higginson

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

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. - Anita Baker

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

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. - 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

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

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