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Fortune favors the audacious.
Desiderius Erasmus

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2.
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
Tecumseh

3.
Most men I know, pissed away their fortunes. I'm the only one I know, that made a fortune pissin'
Frank Costello

4.
It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.
Niccolo Machiavelli

5.
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
Socrates

6.
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.
Karl Kraus

7.
Fortune sides with he who dares
Virgil

8.
Behind every fortune, there's a crime.
Method Man

9.
Balance and good fortune can only come to a person who is balanced and feels fortunate.
Stuart Wilde

10.
I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.
Daniel Boone

11.
If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange

12.
Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
Ben Harper

13.
Behind every successful fortune;There is Crime.
Mario Puzo

14.
I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.
Jerry Della Femina

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Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.
Jason Calacanis

16.
When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.
Fernando de Rojas

17.
It's amazing how difficult it is for a man to understand something if he's paid a small fortune not to understand it.
John C. Bogle

18.
If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.
Sela Ward

19.
True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

20.
One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.
Charlton Heston

21.
Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.
Virgil

22.
The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.
Ryan Ross

23.
You have to do more than you get paid for because that’s where the fortune is.
Jim Rohn

24.
Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
Aristotle

25.
Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.
Valmiki

26.
When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.
John A. Macdonald

27.
Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.
Eric Butterworth

28.
I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.
Niccolo Machiavelli

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One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
Boethius

30.
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
Bodhidharma

31.
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

32.
Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
Demosthenes

33.
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Thomas Carlyle

34.
There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.
Frank Laubach

35.
Character is itself a fortune.
Samuel Smiles

36.
How do you deserve a fortune? Render fortunes of service.
Jim Rohn

37.
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
Boethius

38.
Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance.
Marcus Aurelius

39.
Fortune confounds the wise, And when they least expect it turns the dice.
John Dryden

40.
Fortune favors the prepared.
Howard Hawks

41.
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
Arthur Helps

42.
How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!
Henry Clay

43.
Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.
Leon Battista Alberti

44.
I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.
Francois Hollande

45.
I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.
David Attenborough

46.
My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.
Elyn Saks

47.
A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune.
Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

48.
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
Sophocles

49.
Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.
Ed Seykota

50.
The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.
Niccolo Machiavelli