Fortune is the chance or luck as an arbitrary force affecting human affairs.

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
Francis Quarles

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Sallust

Happiness is not an outside job; it's an inside job.
Anonymous

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain
Anonymous

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Sophocles

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
Mahatma Gandhi

Don't look at how far you have to go, instead look how far you've gotten
Anonymous

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
Bodhidharma

Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.
Terry Pratchett

A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why ships are built.
John A. Shedd

Something wonderful is about to happen to you.
Anonymous

He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.
Benjamin Franklin

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Gaye Crispin

Do what you love fortune will follow.
Anonymous

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.
Drew Barrymore

Fortune favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur

We Make Our Own Fortunes And Call Them Fate
Anonymous

When fortune knocks open the door.
Proverb

The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you're made of, not the circumstances.
Anonymous

To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
Chinese Proverb

A good fortune may forebode a bad luck, which may in turn disguise a good fortune
Anonymous

A great mind becomes a great fortune.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

People learn little from success, but much from failure
Anonymous

A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence
Anonymous

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Benjamin Disraeli

Fortune favors the brave.
Anonymous

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.
Suzanne Necker

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration.
Evan Esar

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
Rachel Field

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Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.
Erika Slezak

By working one can bend fortune. She is fond of crafty men.
Gustave Flaubert

If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don’t let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else’s advertising.
David Ogilvy

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
Walt Whitman

Life's a wheel of fortune and y'all can't buy a vowel.
Lil Kim

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman’s family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
Alfred Russel Wall

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.
Lionel Richie

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Honore de Balzac

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
Virgil

Against change of fortune set a brave heart.
Proverb

Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number.
Nicole Richie

Change yourself and fortune will change with you.
Portugese Proverb

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

Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid

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.
Robert Fulghum

Fortune's wheel is ever turning.
Proverb

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Paul Sweeney

“Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.
Benjamin Disraeli

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.
William Gibson

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The fortune of the ugly is something the beautiful wants.
Spanish Proverb

Fortune is like glass – the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
Publilius Syrus

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife
Anonymous

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn

I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I’ve fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I’d like it to sell millions of copies, but my self – worth is not based on chart positions.
Roland Gift

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis Bacon

There is a very easy way to return form a casino with a small fortune; go there with a large one.
Anonymous

A fortune cookie company once got the lottery numbers right, resulting in 110 winners and an investigation
Anonymous

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
Rachel Field