Quotes About Fortune

Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.

The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

The way of fortune, is like the Milken Way in the sky; which is a meeting or knot of a number of small stars; not seen asunder, but giving light together.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

Fortune is like the market; where many times if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a number of smaller stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together; so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.

Seest thou good days? Prepare for evil times. No summer but hath its winter. He never reaped comfort in adversity that sowed not in prosperity.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.

Never, never, never should a penny of that miraculous fortune be spent; rather should it be added to. It was a nest egg, a monstrous, roc-like nest egg, not so large, however, but that it could be made larger. Already by the end of that winter Trina had begun to make up the deficit of two hundred dollars that she had been forced to expend on the preparations for her marriage.

His stories were so popular that Edwin Lefèvre, the author of the articles in the Saturday Evening Post, assembled them into a bestselling book, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator.24 During the years after the book's publication, Livermore lost the entire $100 million he had made betting on the markets, and then shot himself

Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Excellent fistibus," said Eldric, but he wasn't done with my hand. He inspected my left palm, the pucker of scars. "There's no fortune to be read in that palm," I said, but of course he wanted to know about it; of course he'd been dying to ask since we first met. "Do you want the version of the story in which I'm a hero, or do you want the true version?" "Both," said Eldric. "Greedy!" I said.

The subject of gambling is all encompassing. It combines man's natural play instinct with his desire to know about his fate and his future.