Quotes about fortune

When we are rich and famous and powerful, we do not want to die. On the other hand, if we are miserable and suffering, we want to die and leave it all. But can joy or misery last forever? There is a saying, "All celebrations must end sometime." Any wish to live forever or die immediately is often a whim of the moment. How do we know that, although we are happy now, we may not be sad the next day, or sad now but may be happy soon? Given that good and ill, fortune and misfortune come in their own

I dropped my gardening tools, threw my bicycle over a hedge and went in search of fortunes laid beneath the hangman’s noose.

Fame for the lames, fortune for the brains.

Fame & fortune come with a price that fame finds insulting and fortune can't afford to pay back.

Good fortune and talent are both ingredients of success, but like any recipe, they can be substituted with clever alternatives. The one irreplaceable ingredient I've found, however, is work.

No matter how much fame you get, no matter how much money you make, no matter how much admiration you get, nothing feels as monumental as when someone tells you that something you did changed their outlook on life.

Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

Luck is not as random as you think.Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.

Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependant upon it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure; and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard. You may die before you turn the next page.

What i'm saying is that the sun always rises. Fortune's a mix of good and bad luck. Like they say/ good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope.

It's bad luck not to believe in luck.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

Fortune frowns as often as he smiles, and you don’t want to be in his line of sight when he does.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none. Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]

Say farewell to luck when winning. It is the way of the gamblers of reputation. Quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat. Lock up your winnings when they are enough, or when great. Continuous luck is always suspect; more secure is that which changes. Though half bitter and half sweet, it is more satisfying to the taste. The more luck pyramids, the greater the danger of slip and collapse. For luck always compensates her intensity by her brevity. Fortune wearies of carryin

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

Risk is what you control and fortune is really all about risk. Bottom Line: Fortune comes from big money bets on very low probability events

She couldn’t help but wonder at the events of recent days, and at how—even in the face of such misfortune, there was so much good,

Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.

If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.

Oh, I am fortune's fool!

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people’s mouths. — I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it — but fear I must.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

Who was more conscious than the soldier of capricious fortune, of the random roll of the dice?

What good were fate and fortune anyway? If there was some sort of plan she was supposed to follow, it was unreadable to her and impossible to stick to. She was tired of fate, which was probably just a made-up concept invented by humans to feel like something or someone was guiding them anyway. God, spirits, cookies, whatever. She was so sick of buying into the idea that there was actually meaning behind any of this. It was just her, blind and alone, making a mess of her life on her own, thank yo

What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible.

The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly notice anymore. You forget that this is not the way life has to be. You cease to marvel at just how much evil man con conjure by existing.

But why, everybody asks, am I not blessed by fortune (or at least not as blessed as I would like to be)? Why have I not been favored like others who are less deserving? No one believes their misfortunes are attributable to any shortcomings of their own; that is why they must find a culprit.

Fortune’s a right whore:If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,That she may take away all at one swoop.

We cannot change the past, she thought. How we long to sometimes, trying to work out how horror might have been averted by a fluke of fortune, a kind intercession, wisdom not yet granted.

Do you believe that evil and tragedy are always planned? You don’t think Fortune has anything to do with it?

Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and gives them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune...

Beware of leaders who prefer controlling 100 % of nothing over sharing a fortune.

When you're working, some people relax and wait for the invisible right time, but when they see your fortune, they wake up and strategize an envious attack.

While the differences between love and hate can be blurred and difficult to decipher at times, the dichotomy of denial and acceptance are much more distinct. One is halting and aggressively rejects all truth, while the other is more passive and at peace – welcoming whatever truth is in waiting, whether fortunate or tragic.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

Fortune favors the audacious.

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

We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has put me off. Why not Dr. Victor?

Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance' and 'coincidence.' For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman Law, it is administered with sub-human inefficiency.

It is in reference to Pope Julius that Machiavelli moralizes on the resemblance between Fortune and women, and concludes that it is the bold rather than the cautious man that will win and hold them both.

Fortune makes him fool whom she makes her darling.

It is fortune not wisdom that rules man's life.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

Fortune and Love befriend the bold.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

O fortune fortune! all men call thee fickle.

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.

The eternal struggle between failure and fortune is a fight not between mortal enemies but sparring partners. So fortune is improved by failure, and the reverse is also true.

I make the most of all that comes And the least of all that goes.

If you do not expect it you will not find the unexpected for it is hard to find and difficult.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less travelled by And that has made all the difference.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance the chance will only make him ridiculous.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it will be a fish.

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

The harder you work the luckier you get.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Fortune favours the bold.

The luck of having talent is not enough one must also have a talent for luck.

In the field of observation chance favours the prepared mind.

If you were born lucky even your rooster will lay eggs.

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will but remember it didn't work for the rabbit!

Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.

Luck is being ready for the chance.

Every man even the most blessed needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.

With luck on your side you can do without brains.

If fortune turns against you even jelly breaks your tooth.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Vexed sailors curse the rain For which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

The god abandons AntonyWhen at the hour of midnight an invisible choir is suddenly heard passingwith exquisite music, with voices ― Do not lament your fortune that at last subsides, your life’s work that has failed, your schemes that have proved illusions. But like a man prepared, like a brave man, bid farewell to her, to Alexandria who is departing. Above all, do not delude yourself, do not say that it is a dream, that your ear was mistaken. Do not condescend to such empty hopes. Like a man for

[I]n other words, we should live with due knowledge of the course of things in the world. For whenever a man in any way loses self-control, or is struck down by a misfortune, grows angry, or loses heart, he shows in this way that he finds things different from what he expected, and consequently that he laboured under a mistake, did not know the world and life, did not know how at every step the will of the individual is crossed and thwarted by the chance of inanimate nature, by contrary aims and

Great fortune and peace of mind seldom live together.

Fortune favors the brave."Another moment of silence. And then, Iolanthe found herself shouting at the top of her lungs, her voice nearly drowned by the bellow of all the rebels present, "And the brave make their own fortune!

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.

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

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

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.

If fortune favors you do not be elated if she frowns do not despond.