Quotes About Fortune

Luck is a curious companion, it comes to those who believe they hold it, and is an elusive servant to those who doubt they possess it.

without courage, there is no luck and no hope. He who dares, wins.

million and several billion dollars.

Napoléon Bonaparte was an upstart Corsican soldier of fortune whose ambition-fueled ascension to the throne of France threatened to undermine every foundation of civilization and the social order.

When one good thing happened to you, other good things seemed to follow.

Luck is believing your lucky.

To Fate, a fickle mistress whose sense of justice is exceeded only by her sense of humor.

When her father offered him her hand in marriage and a fortune in gold and jewels as a reward, Burke informed him that he would be content with nothing more than a kiss.'" "Her father must have been a most excellent kisser," Clarinda replied, lifting the book to hide her face altogether.

May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust.

If you make enough predictions, eventually you will get one right, but that is by accident, not design.

Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

Chances are where you find them

See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin.

He'sh mad? Sort of mad. But mad with lots of money. Ah, then he can't be mad. I've been around; if a man hash lotsh of money he'sh just ecshentric.

In order to have a change of fortune at the last minute, you have to take your fortune to the last minute.

And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune? Can't girls seek their fortune? I think they're supposed to seek a boy with a fortune.

Luck is my middle name, said Rincewind, indistinctly. Mind you, my first name is Bad.

Fate can be one mean god at times.

All this good fortune, all this fierce joy ... it was wrong. Surely the universe could not allow this amount of happiness in one man, not without presenting a bill. Somewhere a big dark wave was cresting, and when it broke over his head it would wash everything away. Some days, he was sure he could hear its distant roar ...

No-one likes being told it's their lucky day. That sort of thing does not bode well. When someone tells you it's your lucky day, something bad is about to happen.

And no cheating, Lady. he said. But who could cheat Fate? she asked. He shrugged.No-one. Yet everyone tries.

Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then invents DNA or the flute sonata form or a way of making light bulbs wear out in half the time. But most of them miss. Most people go through their lives without being hit by even one. Some people are even more unfortunate. They get them all.

I laugh when I think how I once sought paradise as a realm outside of the world of birth and death. It is right in the world of birth and death that the miraculous truth is revealed. -But this is not the laughter of someone who suddenly acquires a great fortune; neither is it the laughter of one who has won a victory. It is, rather, the laughter of one who; after having painfully searched for something for a long time, finds it one morning in the pocket of his coat. -Thich Nhat Hanh

Wer für den Strick geboren ist, kann im Wasser nicht umkommen. (S.104)