My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.
Claire Bloom

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.
Maureen O'Hara

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
Francis Quarles

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Plutarch

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
Jeremy Taylor

No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.
Patty Duke

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
Mary Wortley Montagu

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
Euripides

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
Carlo Goldoni

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
Marilyn French

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
Ovid

O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.
Lewis J. Bates

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
Lew Wallace

One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance.
John Barrow

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Robert A. Heinlein

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
Ayn Rand

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
Charles Simmons