Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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.
Fortune befriends the bold.
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.
If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.
The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.
I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.
The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.