
Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline. —
Saadi

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life. —
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Lainie, of course, would never turn gray. No respectable woman from Texas ever would."
~ A Woman of Fortune —
Kellie Coates Gilbert

I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune. —
Neil Strauss

Success, fame, and fortune, they're all illusions. All there is that is real is the friendship that two can share. —
Michael James Jackson

Fortune Town IT Mall and buy software and electronics of all sorts very, very, very cheap, —
Ramez Naam

Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties. —
Janette Rallison

Seducing a girl is no art, but it needs a stroke of good fortune to find one worth seducing. —
Soren Kierkegaard

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own. —
Wilson Mizner

Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases.
[Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.] —
Plautus

Fortune and love favor the brave. —
Ovid

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea. —
Plato

What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us! —
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
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[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth? —
Chinua Achebe

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will. —
Euripides

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain. —
Homer

If sarcasm were gold, she would have just made her fortune. —
Karen Hawkins

When fortune comes, do not enjoy all of it; when advantage comes, do not take all of it. —
Lisa See

Fortune favors the bold. —
Joseph Pignataro

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune. —
Robert Southey

I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear. —
Ovid

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself. —
Plautus

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. —
Sallust

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 —
Ziad K. Abdelnour

why should I demand of Fortune that she give rather than demand of myself that I should not crave? —
Seneca.

Time is our only fortune - so get scribbling —
Vic Robbie

What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with. —
Dion Fortune

The neurotic is very often psychic, and the psychic is very often neurotic. —
Dion Fortune

For a lack of education, a child's future may hold no fortune. —
Dennis E. Adonis

Time properly invested is worth a fortune. —
Jim Rohn

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise. —
Jean De La Bruyere

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture. —
Agnes Repplier

There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs. —
Charles Caleb Colton

When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown. —
Robert Southwell

Every man is the artisan of his own fortune. —
Appius Claudius Caecus

A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism. —
Dion Fortune

Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune. —
Olivia Munn

Exceptional results arrive only when exceptional people put in exceptional effort. It never arises by accident or good fortune. —
Peter Thomas

Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same. —
Betty White

Acknowledge your good fortune by sharing it. —
Stephen King

The best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a big one. —
Junior Johnson

In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends ... —
William Makepeace Thackeray

The
best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings. —
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Publications such as Forbes and Fortune continually rank Georgia cities as among the best places to live, work and run a business. —
Roy Barnes

The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours. —
Jean De La Bruyere

Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy. —
Pietro Metastasio

You know as well as I do that fortune never sends the best-case scenario our way
You have way too much bad karma. —
Eoin Colfer

Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best. —
Pierre Charron

There is in the worst of fortune the best chances for a happy change. —
Robin S. Sharma

Expect the Best, Expect Divine Guidance, Expect your Fortunes to Change, Expect a Miracle! —
Wayne Dyer

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. —
Miguel De Cervantes

Women are not In their
best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal. —
William Shakespeare

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances. —
Aristotle.

When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one's children. That distorts their life situation. —
Bill Gates

What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age? —
Helene Hanff

The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune is exactly the same. —
Ralph Marston