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Quotes About Fortune

His designs were strictly honourable as the phrase is: that is to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
~ Henry Fielding
Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
~ Fidel Castro
In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
~ Cyrus the Great
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
A newspaper man wrote an article that I had 300 million dollars, well, I wish I had a million dollars
~ Meyer Lansky
Most men I know, pissed away their fortunes. I'm the only one I know, that made a fortune pissin'
~ Frank Costello
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
~ P. T. Barnum
I don't believe in luck. Luck comes to men of action.
~ Tom Platz
There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.
~ Thales
When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye.
~ William Shakespeare
Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!
~ Nathaniel Parker Willis
Shallow men believe in luck.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
~ Frederick Douglass
People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.
~ Gary Cooper
It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
~ Joseph Conrad
The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
~ Demosthenes
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
A real man makes his own luck.
~ Billy Zane
A man who trusts in luck better have plenty of it.
~ Zedd
The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.
~ Clifton Fadiman
The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.
~ C. S. Forester
A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.
~ Lew Wallace