Greatest Good Fortune

Fortune favors the bold. - Ennius

Fortune favors the brave. - Publius Terence

Fortune befriends the bold. - Emily Dickinson

Fortune sides with him who dares. - Virgil

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

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

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

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

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

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling. He who makes one is a fool. - F.M. Knowles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. - Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

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

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