Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.
I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.
A just fortune awaits the deserving. [Lat. , Fors aequa merentes Respicit. ]
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.
I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours. . . seems likely that I'll go on squandering till the very end.
And the brave make their own fortune!
Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.
. . . it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.
The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.
It's funny, but. . . you're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never know when it will befall you.
So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god-all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you.
If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
If the loss of your earthly fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.