Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing. |
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. |
To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature. |
His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust. |
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works. |
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. |
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity. |
Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away. |
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. |
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. |