The eternal struggle between failure and fortune is a fight not between mortal enemies but sparring partners. So fortune is improved by failure, and the reverse is also true.
~ Agona Apell
I make the most of all that comes And the least of all that goes.
~ Sara Teasdale
If you do not expect it you will not find the unexpected for it is hard to find and difficult.
~ Heraclitus
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less travelled by And that has made all the difference.
~ Robert Frost
Unless a man has trained himself for his chance the chance will only make him ridiculous.
~ W. Matthews
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it will be a fish.
~ Ovid
Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
~ Anatole France
The harder you work the luckier you get.
~ Gary Player
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fortune favours the bold.
~ Terence
The luck of having talent is not enough one must also have a talent for luck.
~ Hector Berlioz
In the field of observation chance favours the prepared mind.
~ Louis Pasteur
If you were born lucky even your rooster will lay eggs.
~ Russian Proverb
Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.
~ J. Christopher Herold
Luck is being ready for the chance.
~ J. Frank Dobie
Every man even the most blessed needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.
~ Vance Bourjaily
With luck on your side you can do without brains.
~ Giordano Bruno
If fortune turns against you even jelly breaks your tooth.
~ Persian Proverb
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
~ William Shakespeare
I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
~ Stephen Leacock
Vexed sailors curse the rain For which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
~ Edmund Waller
Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.
~ John Ray
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
~ Thomas W. Higginson
Fortune and love favor the brave.
It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.
~ Placido Domingo
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
Fortune favors the audacious.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
~ Virgil
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
~ Laurence J. Peter
Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.
~ Elvis Costello
You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
~ Anita Baker
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
~ Emily Dickinson
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
~ Plutarch
Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.
~ Andrew Tobias
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
~ Honoré De Balzac
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
~ Plautus
I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.
~ Francois Hollande
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
~ Tecumseh
Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
~ Zig Ziglar
