Greatest Good Fortune

Fortune favors the bold. - Ennius

Fortune favors the brave. - Publius Terence

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. - Benjamin Franklin

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