One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.
If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.
It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.
Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.
Learning to endure, transform by perspective or action, and be grateful is the fast lane to a good life. That's right. Having great luck and fortune is not the conduit to a loving and enjoyable life; gratitude is.
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.
Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.
When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.
To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.
Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
Fortune favours the audacious.
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.
So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't.
Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.
Expect the Best, Expect Divine Guidance, Expect your Fortunes to Change, Expect a Miracle!
You had my heart, and I yours; a heart for a heart, good fortune for good fortune.