Quotes About Fortune

A person has to show some spirit -- fate just about never shines on chickenshits.

So my conscience chide me not, I am ready for Fortune as she wills.

In my experience, luck is more output than input

How perfect were the dictates of fate!

As the old saying goes, "Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

A latte spurned is a fortune earned.

He showed that fame may be won and what services be rendered by a plain son of the people unaided by any gifts of fortune.

Keep hoping to rub the genie's lamp maybe you get lucky

Success breeds success while broke breeds broke

What's gonna happen'll happen.

Experimental ideas are very often born by chance as a result of fortuitous observations.

Call it fate, call it luck, but we Lankshire men think the more prepared we are the luckier we get, if you get my meaning.

Fate loves the fearless.

But the term of man and woman, of king or queen, is set in the stars, and there is no escaping Doom for any one;

Una mente perspicaz siempre acaba descubriendo la razón. ¿Pero la suerte? Es invisible, caótica, angelical.

Maybe, I thought- reaching in the bag, taking out a stack of money and looking it over- maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in. You didn't feel anything at first.

Chance had placed him in the catapult and now it was up to the vagaries of history to cut the catapult's rope.

The majority of the great fortunes were "won not by doing evil, but as an incident to action which has benefited the community as a whole.

Any man who has been successful, Roosevelt repeatedly said, has leapt at opportunities chance provides.

I wish to make my fortune with you.' 'Well, you can forget about that, for a start,' said Francis Crawford. 'And if your place in Paradise has been written, then for God's sake hang on to it. Because we're going in the opposite direction.

It was the only field, so far, in which the Pearl of Fortune had shown any precocity, other than the feat of keeping her head, her reason and her sense of the ridiculous amid conditions of civilized lunacy.

You should know,' said Lord Grey, adjusting his sight to the folded paper he had just raised from his desk, ' that I am tied to the Hexham Saphronia, who combines total chastity with a jackal-like taste for digging up my family history. With twelve barons Grey to research she should be rendered peacefully harmless, with no sharp quality of heat, either biting the tongue or offending the head. She will also bring you a fortune in dowry.' He looked up.

I don't mind being labelled devilish but I do mind being regarded as unlucky. The only way to answer that is by a string of successes.

Anyway, maybe it's only somebody that just died and left you twenty million dollars. Maybe it isn't some other woman at all.