Quotes About Fortune

Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.

Each man's character shapes his fortunes.

Chance works for us when we are good captains.

Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks.

Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.

It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.

Fortune is with you for an hour, and against you for ten!

Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same old dog's rear end every day.

Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

The profits of good luck are perishable; if you build on fortune, you build on sand; the more advancement you achieve, the more dangers you run.

It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

I'm hardnosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, "Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today." But dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. ... If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.

It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Certainly I believe in luck. How else do you explain the success of those you don't like?

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

The present is all the ready money Fate can give.

None think the great unhappy but the great.

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

No good man ever became suddenly rich.

All other goods by fortune's hand are given: A wife is the peculiar gift of Heav'n.