From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
Tecumseh

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
Ferdinand Lassalle

From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.
Ernest Lawrence

From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.
Giraldus Cambrensis

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
Rufus Choate

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

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

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

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

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."
Marcus Aurelius

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
Petrarch

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

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.
Thomas Willis

I believe in America. America's made my fortune.
Mario Puzo

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
Mae West

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.
Solomon Burke

I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.
Anna Held

I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.
Hugh Laurie