Quotes About Fortune

I know how fortunate I am and my family are to be healthy.

I consider myself to be one of the really, really fortunate ones to have gotten out of the game as healthy as I did.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.

The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

I think the whole under-eye-bag thing is hereditary, and I just got lucky.

You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.

In my experience there is no such thing as luck, my young friend—only highly favorable adjustments of multiple factors to incline events in one's favor.

They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes." Leia Organa of Alderaan, Senator

Good luck "You will be the better for it," he returned. "I believe I've allus been the better for any trouble as ever I had to go through with. I couldn't quite say the same for every bit of good luck I had; leastways, I consider trouble the best luck a man can have." Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood, ch. 33

No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients-- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.

Though waiters always die poor, they have long runs of luck occasionally.

gambling, the cheapest of all luxuries.

Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. You

Good luck, we do find, often follows opportunity but seldom comes otherwise.

Now, suppose we consider our trades and businesses. Is it not natural if we conclude a profitable transaction to consider it not good luck but a just reward for our efforts? I am inclined to think we may be overlooking the gifts of the goddess. Perhaps she really does assist us when we do not appreciate her generosity.

First must each of you start wisely to build a fortune of his own. Then wilt thou be competent, and only then, to teach these truths to others.

Even at such labor did I myself earn my first coppers. Therefore, thou hast the same opportunity to build a fortune.

Never mind though our purses be as empty as the falcon's nest of a year ago. Let that not detain us. We are weary of being without gold in the midst of plenty. We wish to become men of means. Come, let us go to Arkad and ask how we, also, may acquire incomes for ourselves.

Nonsense," reproved Kobbi, "a man's wealth is not in the purse he carries. A fat purse quickly empties if there be no golden stream to refill it. Arkad has an income that constantly keeps his purse full, no matter how liberally he spends." "Income, that is the thing

a man's wealth is not in the purse he carries. A fat purse quickly empties if there be no golden stream to refill it. Arkad has an income that constantly keeps his purse full

We all hope to be favored by the whimsical Goddess of Good Luck.

The desire to be lucky is universal.