It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
Petrarch

It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.
Placido Domingo

It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.
Torquato Tasso

It is we that are blind, not fortune.
Thomas Browne

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

It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at the moment, but every now and then I get a bit of a jump. I wish I could find a cure, I'd make a bloody fortune.
Eric Bristow

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.
Martin Lewis Perl

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
Ulysses S. Grant

It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
Adam Baldwin

It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.
Lesley Garrett

It's sometimes unnerving to think of that, and I wish it were possible for all children in the world to have the good fortune I've had in having a giving and loving family.
James MacArthur

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
James Weldon Johnson

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.
Jim Hightower

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Emily Dickinson

Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday.
Jamal Lewis

Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.
Silius Italicus

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
Johann Georg Zimmermann

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Benjamin Disraeli