Quotes About Fortune

If you want to know how fortunate you are, visit three places: the slum, the hospital, and the cemetery.

Destiny plays its cards in a way that no one can comprehend.

Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.

Life is like a tango fortunate are the few who can master it.

If you push your luck too hard, fortune's muscles might tear.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.

I remind myself everyday just how lucky I am to do what I love! I feel so fortunate and I'm just trying to take my life one day at a time.

There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

It's awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship." "It's awful worse luck not to.

I don't want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else's, to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control.

Good things happen to good people.

By then we all believed that happiness should be treasured if good fortune happened to blow it briefly your way.

You can choose to see the curse or the gift. And this one choice will determine if your life is a success story or one big soap opera.

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

I define those who have gained fame and fortune not so much by their achievements as by how they got there—the enormous odds they overcame, the dignity and courage they displayed in the process, the way they treated people ethically and fairly along the way.

I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was twenty-one. Everything since then has been a bonus.

adverse fortune is more beneficial than good fortune; the latter only makes men greedy for more, but adversity makes them strong.

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune."6

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

She always said how lucky were to be friends... but it was us baby who were the lucky ones

Money is applause.

It appears that no one is so unfortunate that he or she is exempt from spending cuts, while at the same time no one is so fortunate as to be ineligible for a tax cut