Fortune and love favor the brave.
—Ovid
Venus favors the bold.
—Ovid
People universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you are fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.
—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
—Laurence J. Peter
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
—Honoré de Balzac
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
—Ambrose Bierce
We should manage our fortunes as we do our health—enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.
—J. S. Bryan
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
—Publilius Syrus
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
—Sallust
Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
—Sophocles
Fortune favors the brave.
—Virgil
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
—Walt Whitman