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Henceforth I ask not good fortune

 


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

Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac

Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family. - J. S. Bryan

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. - Suzanne Necker

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct. - Publilius Syrus

Every man is the architect of his own fortune. - Sallust

Fortune favours the bold. – Virgil

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets preparation. – Seneca

Fortune is like glass — the brighter it shines, the more easily it is broken. – Publilius Syrus

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