Quotes About Fortune

People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you're fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly.

But no, he did not believe in capricious fortune, but in a carefully woven pattern where every tightly stretched warp thread of pain laid the foundation for a woof thread of joy.

For a single girl in London, luck isn't always a glass slipper that fits. Sometimes luck is a splash of mud from a passing bus.

Sometimes the best part in life is an accident that goes right.

Not every wealthy man might choose a public life, but anyone who chose public life must be a wealthy man. Corruption, coercion and predation ensured the determined could acquire fortunes. Augustus, while still a teenager, had amassed enough money to support a private army. Ambitious men gathered the support of peers and bestowed patronage on numerous clients. Patronage, indeed, was at the heart of the whole system.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

The study of history is Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the only method of learning to bear with dignity the vicissitudes of Fortune. —Polybius (200–118 BCE)

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Así, tras haber tenido buen número de amantes, una mujer debe considerarse afortunada si sabe convertir a alguno de ellos, el más inteligente, en un fiel y leal amigo.

Cada uno es su propia suerte

Cuando te toca, ni aunque te quites; y cuando no te toca, ni aunque te pongas.

For the minister, who was far from considering himself a radical on questions of ethics, not all scoundrels were equal; their degree of social acceptability stood in direct relation to each individual's fortune and distinction—especially if, in exchange for that minor moral violation on the minister's part, large material benefits were to be obtained.

Ésas son cosas de la suerte —suspiró filosófico Garza—. Las balas las disparan los hombres y las reparte Dios.

Cuando te toca, ni aunque te quites; y cuando no te toca, ni aunque te pongas, dicen en México).

Si no temo perder lo que poseo, ni deseo tener lo que no gozo, poco de la fortuna en mí el destrozo valdrá, cuando me elija actor o reo.   ...

El azar era una explicación que sólo tranquilizaba a los idiotas.

Unas veces se pierde y otras se deja de ganar.

Fate is not the same for all.

bad luck. That is because what you focus

When it is said that a buddha shows the path in accordance with the respective karmic fortune of the disciples, this means that he adapts his teaching to their respective intelligence and mental capacities.

Entiende que la fortuna no es sino infortunio interminable, por el desasosiego de adquirirla y guardarla y por la desolación que acompaña el perderla.

Hija mía, afortunadamente, o desafortunadamente, no todo el mundo puede alcanzar la felicidad, ya sea en la vida o en los cuentos. La dicha de unos produce la desdicha de los otros. Es triste, pero es así.

A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.