Quotes About Fortune

I mean, I always feel incredibly lucky to get a job.

I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it.

I've been incredibly blessed.

Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

But what is Fortune? What is Fate? The Christian knows them not: He knows a Being, good as great, Controls his earthly lot: No fabled phantom's vain caprice Assails his joy, or mars his peace.

Defying Fate's and Fortune's will; What first was fair, is glorious still.

Destiny is all, Ravn liked to tell me, destiny is everything. He would even say it in English, "Wyrd biõ ful ãræd.

Wyrd bið ful ?ræd. Fate is inexorable.

But bad luck makes good stories.

The vast majority of Americans recognize that Eugene Victor Debs was right when he said, a century ago, that "I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow As Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me The pot's at the other end.

When the houses of the great collapse Many little people are slain. Those who have no share in the fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes. The plunging wain Drags the sweating beasts with it into the abyss.

Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.

The man who every sacred science knows, Yet has not strength to keep in check the foes That rise within him, mars his Fortune?s fame, And brings her by his feebleness to shame.

Fate's sentence written on the brow no hand can e'er efface.

Whatever good fortune befalls you, attribute it to the gods.

Great riches come to many men by chance.

I'm quite lucky, because I've got a small, decorative concrete pig.

Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time.

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

I will give away at least half my wealth during my lifetime and after my death. In the meantime, I'll continue to grow my wealth as much as possible so that the amount I bequeath to charities and worthy causes can be as substantial as possible.