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

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

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

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

Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right. - Oprah Winfrey

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

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

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

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

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

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune. - Richard Whately

New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. - Jay Leno

Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since. - Dave Beard

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

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or fortune but just yourself that kept things from you. - Lillian Hellman

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

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

The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness. - Emerson