Quotes About Fortune

What is the most valuable thing on earth? It's not the Hope Diamond, or the National Treasury. It's not a Picasso collection, or the Microsoft fortune. It is the wisdom of God, seen in the pages of your Bible. You've had access to it all along.

I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

To believe in luck - is skepticism.

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

What great punya I must have done, what huge tapasya, what charity to brahmanas – that I am to have the incalculable fortune of seeing Keshava today!

nobody does anything. It is a happening. It would not have happened if it was not supposed to happen.

Fortune Town IT Mall and buy software and electronics of all sorts very, very, very cheap,

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

The magical good fortune of attractive personal appearance makes its way almost without effort in the world, breaking down all sorts of walls of disapproval and lack of interest. Even the homely person can attract by personal charm. But deformity cannot even be charming.

Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

Luck is indeed where preparation meets opportunity.

Be prepared luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity

Luck is what happens, when preparation meets opportunity

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." The Last Lecture

Lucky" is a strange word to use to describe my situation, but a part of me does feel fortunate that I didn't get hit by the proverbial bus. Cancer has given me the time to have these vital conversations with Jai that wouldn't be possible if my fate were a heart attack or a car accident.

Luck is what happens when preparation meet opportunity

Luck is the dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. —Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Some people find the golden ring swimming in their cereal in the morning, slip it on their finger and go skipping through life. And others drop it in the sand at the beach & spend the rest of their life digging to get it back.

I've always had this 'carve out your own existence' attitude and I'm always encouraging other people to do this, if they can. Of course not everyone has the choice. I've been lucky.

You have to catch the breaks.

The other guys just caught lightning in a bottle with a great game.