Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.


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Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.
LATIN PROVERB
Fortune favors the bold.
VIRGIL
Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.
VIRGIL
Fortune favors the bold, history tells us. Therefore, it behooves us to be as bold as possible.
ERIKA JOHANSEN
fortes fortuna adiuvat," Marcello had said to his men. Fortune favors the brave, the bold.
LISA TAWN BERGREN
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear ...
TACITUS
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fea...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS
Venus favors the bold.
OVID
Fortune favors the audacious.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS
Fortune favors the brave.
VIRGIL
Fortune favors the audacious
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS
Fortune favors the brave.
TERENCE
Fortune favors the nonchalant.
MARTY RUBIN
Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now,
work gone wrong, your plans
all proving dece...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
LOUIS PASTEUR
Fortune, that favors fools
BEN JONSON
Fortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSON
Fortune favours the bold.
DAVID TUVILL
Fortune befriends the bold.
JOHN DRYDEN
Fortune favours the bold.
VIRGIL
Fortune befriends the bold.
EMILY DICKINSON
Fortune favours the bold
VIRGIL
His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.
CHARLES STANLEY
Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fors juvat audentes.]
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS)
Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fortes fortuna adjuvat.]
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER
Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.
E.A. BUCCHIANERI
Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy
AGONA APELL
It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.
CHARLES THE BOLD
It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere.
CHARLES THE BOLD
It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.
CHARLES THE BOLD
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
HORACE
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
HORACE
The best leaders don't set timid and selfish goals but instead set bold targets that may be hard...
CARLES PUIGDEMONT
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
P. T. BARNUM
Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Eve...
IVETA CHERNEVA
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
CARLO GOLDONI
( Fortune Favors the Bold ) just shows how much we've progressed and grown as musicians, and, more s...
MARCUS DAVIS
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
AUSONIUS
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
AUSONIUS AUSONIUS
Both the gentle & aggressive or the bold & timid have important parts to play in the movie being dir...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and com...
AMBROSE BIERCE
May you taste the sweetest pleasures that fortune ere bestowed, and may all your friends remember al...
ANONYMOUS TOAST
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortun...
FRANCIS QUARLES
The achievements of Apollo were so bold and our subsequent efforts so timid that the energy of those...
BUZZ ALDRIN
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being goo...
ANITA BROOKNER
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by be...
ANITA BROOKNER
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by be...
ANITA BROOKNER
FRIENDLESS, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth an...
AMBROSE BIERCE
Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.
SHERYL SANDBERG
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not b...
JIM ROHN
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being...
ANITA BROOKNER
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She s...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
The governor has the good fortune to have the House and the Senate
controlled by his party. If ...
JEAN ROBERT LAFORTUNE
That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left.
R.J. SCOTT
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune
SWEDISH PROVERB
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. [Lat., Si fortuna juvat, ca...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
SWEDISH PROVERB
He who abandons the field is beaten.
VICTOR HUGO
Failure gives the bald hairs; equips the novice with experience. The learner, sooner or later, becom...
OGWO DAVID EMENIKE
Sooner or later, the man who learnt lessons from his failures will be the one to be sought first for...
OGWO DAVID EMENIKE
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobil...
GOLDONI
Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is r...
G.K. CHESTERTON
The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter ...
DON DRYSDALE
The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter ...
DON DRYSDALE
Do you know the opportunity you get when you fail? It is starting again - an opportunity to perform ...
OGWO DAVID EMENIKE
The greatest reward for a man's failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becom...
OGWO DAVID EMENIKE
If your failure is not a lesson, it's indeed a failure.
OGWO DAVID EMENIKE
Be the action and bring the change. Leave the rest to the law of causality. Be bold enough to cause ...
ABHIJIT NASKAR
Hope never abandons you; you abandon it
GEORGE WEINBERG
Serendipity favors the believing.
KRYSTL CAMPOS
The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, ...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
A true patriot never abandons his country at the hour of need.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE
There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.
JIM BUTCHER
A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor. [Lat...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS
In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.
LOUIS PASTEUR
For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former fav...
PLINY THE YOUNGER (CAIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS)
No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward. [Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi e...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)
That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one. [Lat., Nam imp...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
HORACE GREELEY
To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. [Lat., Beneficium accipere, libertatem est vendere.]
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS)
The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Life never dries out once it abandons greed.
JONATHAN CHEN
Chance favors the connected mind.
STEVEN JOHNSON
Chance generally favors the prudent.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Chance favors the prepared mind.
LOUIS PASTEUR
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and...
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY
Pain in the present is experienced as hurt,pain in the past is remembered as anger.
GAELIC PROVERB
PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
It’s not the smart that get ahead, but the bold.
ROBERT T. KIYOSAKI
'You have no fortune.' I didn't need a cookie to tell me that.
SARAH JESSICA PARKER
One need not obey the rules if he abandons a meaningless or cruel game.
O ANNA NIEMUS
Great cooking favors the prepared hands.
JACQUES PEPIN
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
To be independent is an privilege.
PRADEEPA PANDIYAN

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