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Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.
A great fortune enslaves its owner.
Fortune, that arrant whore,
Ne'er turns the key to th'poor.
The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
MISFORTUNE, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.
I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.
Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.
Fortitude is fortune.
Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
Fortune is a courtesan; favorable yesterday, she may turn her back tomorrow.
We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.
Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.
Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.
Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.
Character is itself a fortune.
Fortune is merry,
And in this mood will give us anything.
Fortune doth both raise up the low and pluck down the high.
Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.
Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
fortune favors action.
The wheel of fortune lifts us up and brings us down. You must free your happiness from its vagaries. Expect nothing, and everything is a gift.
We are so surrounded with this fortune that we tend to forget that though subjectively in abundance, objectively this is a rarity.
Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.
Some people carry their luck with them and people got to find it.
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases.
[Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.
Luck is the residue of opportunity and design.
If we knew enough, fortune would turn out to be nature.
We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
... fortune holds some gifts in store for those who try
Good fortune has side effects.
Fortune is like a widow won,And truckles to the bold alone.
Risk is what you control and fortune is really all about risk. Bottom Line: Fortune comes from big money bets on very low probability events
When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.
To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.
Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]
Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
Fortune's a right whore:
If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,
That she may take away all at one swoop.
Fortune, in fact, is a pestilent shrew, and, withal, an inexorable creditor; and though for a time she may be all smiles and courtesies, and indulge us in long credits, yet sooner or later she brings up her arrears with a vengeance, and washes out her scores with our tears.
Luck is the bastard child of Fate and Destiny.
Luck is when skill meets opportunity.
Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
In every day waits fortune like a seed ready to sprout.
Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.
Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.
Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.
Fortune confounds the wise,
And when they least expect it turns the dice.
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
People make their own luck.
Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.
It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.
A great fortune is a great slavery.
We must master our good fortune, or it will master us.
Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.
To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
Fortune craves not Contentment, for it is an earthly hope, and its desires are embraced by union with objects, while Contentment is naught but heartfelt.
When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.
Fortune makes many loans, but gives no presents.
MEPHISTO. Good fortune's closely linked to merit, A thought that never enters foolish minds; The Philosopher's Stone's there in their hands? The Philosopher's searching everywhere for it.
A fortune begins with a penny.
We make our own fortune and call it destiny.
A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.
Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.
The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
Luck is when determination meets opportunity
Fries and fortune... The perfect combination.
Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
It is we that are blind, not fortune.
The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
Fortune and humor govern the world.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Fortune sides with he who dares
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
Luck is not a business model.
You're going to have to make your own fortune. You've been given a lot of challenge. No one is going to help you or save you. You're going to have to do it yourself.
Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.
See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.
Alas! the joys that fortune brings
Are trifling, and decay,
And those who prize the trifling things,
More trifling still than they.
Fortune is as fickle as the wind, but she occasionally gives moments worth every second in gold.
Luck and risk taking go hand in hand.