Quotes About Fortune

Well, I was never in luck's way long.

Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?

Every man has his destiny. But who needs to to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry? Nobu

I could never have imagined that I - a slave terrorized by Hatsumomo's wickedness- had lived a relatively fortunate life through the Great Depression. But that day I realized it was true.

Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it?

Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

Fate shuffles the cards and we play.

Health so far outweighs all external goods that a healthy beggars is truly more fortunate than a king in poor health.

Whatever fate befalls you, do not give way to great rejoicings or great lamentation; partly because all things are full of change, and your fortune may turn at any moment; partly because men are so apt to be deceived in their judgment as to what is good or bad for them.

Das Schicksal mischt die Karten, und wir spielen.

El azar reparte las cartas pero nosotros las jugamos.

Das Schicksal mischt die Karten, wir spielen.

Sometimes you're lucky and you don't even know it.

Sometimes you find bad luck and good luck in the same place.

Some people carry their luck with them and people got to find it.

Somehow, through a flip of the coin, I ended up here. Feeling like somebody at the top of the heart-lung transplant recipient list. Damaged but invigorated and fucking lucky.

The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth - the man who would make his own fortune no matter where he started. If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys him.

He has once built his fortune, starting out with empty hands; now he had to rebuild his life, starting out with an empty spirit

If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys him.

Yet no penny of his wealth had been obtained by force or fraud; he was guilty of nothing, except that he earned his own fortune and never forgot that it was his.

Who can adequately express his astonishment at the changes of fortune, and the mysterious vicissitudes in human affairs?

superior in its ways, splendid in its luxuries, the place to go to spend your fortune, write your poetry, find (or forget) a romance, restore your health, reinvent yourself, or regroup after having conquered vast swaths of Italy, Spain, and Greece over the course of a Herculean decade.