Quotes About Fortune

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

Somebody up there likes me. It ain't like I've followed a well trodden trajectory.

With Soapkills, we were lucky. We started at a time of transition where things were not ready, nothing was available.

It's not hard to generate a paper fortune in a huge inflation. All you have to do is own the most important economic assets: energy, communication, and transportation.

We are so fortunate that our new and existing investors share our vision of making Hyperloop the world's first new mode of transportation in over a century. We initially targeted $50 million and ended up raising $85 million instead.

Socket's real name is Chidalu Fortune Tony, and he was born in Owerri Imo State, Nigeria is a HipHop/RnB Artist also a Songwriter

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.

Ojalá Critón, que la mayoría fuera capaz de llevar a cabo los mayores males, con tal de que fuera capaz de realizar los mayores bienes, que entonces todo iría bellamente. Mas, por el contrario, de ninguna de las dos cosas son capaces, que no pueden hacer ni lo sensato ni lo insensato, sino tan solo lo que les salga a la ventura

Until he is dead, do not yet call a man happy, but only lucky.

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

People wait their whole lives for this. Sometimes half their lives pass before they find it. Sometimes they never do. They settle for something else. Or nothing at all. But we found each other now, Georgia. Do you know how lucky that makes us?

I have been poor and I have been rich. Rich is better.

I think I've been very lucky. The readers who write to me say they like the characters and the sense of a real world, often one they don't otherwise know about. And usually there's a funny bit in there somewhere.

Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.

Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

A avut noroc, a avut doi baieti, dar in cele din urma nu el a avut cel mai mare noroc, ci fiicele sale. Ele au avut norocul imens de a nu se fi nascut!

A horse is worth more than riches.