Quotes About Fortune

You, too, may strike it rich who dares to play the Westing game.

He'd racketed around the world, collecting pirate's booty and investing it. Rather surprisingly, money made money.

From the day we arrive on the planet And blinking step into the sun There's more to be seen than can ever be seen More to do than can ever be done Some say, eat or be eaten Some say, live and let live But, all are agreed as they join the stampede You should never take more than you give In the circle of life It's the wheel of fortune It's the leap of faith It's the band of hope Till we find our place On the path unwinding In the circle The Circle of Life

I wish you luck with a capital "F".

Every so seemed misfortune is designed to become a stepping stone i.e. that your so seemed current misfortunes will later on turn out to become fortunes for you.

Success is what occurs whenever preparation meets opportunity. ~Emeasoba George

To be passionate is like being used to drinking a lot of water. And whoever that drinks a lot of water hardly falls sick. Similarly, whoever that is positively passionate will hardly fail in whatever he or she does. Or rather, he or she will often emerge a success eventually. Thus, you've got to be passion driven in all you do. For, to be passionate is even better off than to be fortunate. Because, passion initiates and guarantees fortunes. That's just that.

It is a great force, and a great fortune, to be able to live without any ambition whatever. I aspire to it, but the very fact of so aspiring still participates in ambition.

Hercules was punished for having succeeded in all his undertakings. Similarly Troy, too happy, had to perish. Pondering this vision shared by the tragic poets, we cannot help thinking that the so-called free world, upon which every fortune has been lavished, will inevitably suffer Ilion's fate, for the jealousy of the gods survives their disappearance.

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

Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.

A single run of luck has made the fortune of many a charm and many idols.

Prosperity often presages adversity.

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

Vinet gave his wife the terrible, fixed, cold look with which men enforce their absolute dominion. The hapless helot, punished incessantly for not having the one thing that was wanted of her, a fortune, took up her cards.

To be able to keep a mother-in-law in the country while he lives in Paris, and vice versa, is a piece of good fortune which a husband too rarely meets with.

So when we came together, the Countess and I, I understood at once the reason of her antipathy for me, disguised though it was by the most gracious forms of politeness and civility. I had been forced to be her confidant, and a woman cannot but hate the man before whom she is compelled to blush. And she on her side knew that if I was the man in whom her husband placed confidence, that husband had not as yet given up his fortune.

Aunque sea cierto que la buena y la mala suerte existen, depender de ellas es una actitud muy cómoda.

Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky.

With a little luck you can get what you wish for

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

No man is so rich as to buy every thing his unrestrained fancy might prompt him to desire. Hounds and horses, pictures and statues and buildings, will exhaust any fortune. There is hardly any one taste so simple or innocent, but what a man might spend his whole estate in it, if he were resolved to gratify it to the utmost. A nobleman may just as easily ruin himself by extravagance as a private man, and indeed many do so.