Quotes About Fortune

Fate will unwind as it must!

Man is supreme lord and master Of his own ruin and disaster, Controls his fate, but nothing less In ordering his own happiness: For all his care and providence Is too feeble a defence To render it secure and certain Against the injuries of Fortune; And oft, in spite of all his wit, Is lost by one unlucky hit, And ruined with a circumstance, And mere punctilio of a chance.

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now & then, but every turn of the card & cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive.

La mera negativa era demasiado aleatoria, porque a veces la nada puede ser la respuesta acertada, y yo jamás habría dejado mi suerte en manos del azar.

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

But whoever always wants only fortune of others is ugly, since he cripples himself. A murderer is one who wants to force others to blessedness, since he kills his own growth.

But I don't feel as if a black cloud hangs over my head. I've had a lot of good luck too, you see. I like to think so, anyway." Dougal

Since fortune was dragging its heels, I would lure it out with my hard work.

We cannot fight fortuna, only try to anticipate her whims and, if we're lucky, bend her to our will.

A reinar, fortuna, vamos; no me despiertes, si duermo, y si es verdad, no me duermas.

It didn't make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don't deserve them, while letting some of the biggest jackasses and scoundrels alive waltz their way through long, untroubled existences.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Fate bestows its rewards on those who put themselves in the proper attitude to receive them.

El dinero no es fácil de encontrar, Victorita lo sabe muy bien. Hace falta suerte. Todo lo demás lo puede poner uno de su parte, pero la suerte no.

The vain woman spent fortunes seeking out astrologers, sorcerers, and magicians who would concoct spells and potions to preserve her beauty and help her remain looking young--but envy is hard to cover.

Chance is unceasingly at work in our lives," Churchill would write years later, thinking back on Grenfell and the fate that might have been his, "but we cannot always see its workings sharply and clearly defined.

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

Siempre es sobre accidentes

Why were some people born into blessing and others born into curse?

Maybe fate will be kinder in the next life

while there may have been gods, they weren't particularly well defined. If, for instance, something unusually lucky happened, one might declare that a god--pick one--was feeling generous that day. And if a particularly bad thing happened, a god (usually a different one) was upset about something or other. Gods, in other words, were what most of us would now call chance or luck. And in that sense they served their purpose, by making a random existence seem less random.

Probability said that someday we would run out of luck—as

For of fortunes sharpe adversiteeThe worste kynde of infortune is this,A man to han ben in prosperitee,And it remembren, whan it passed is.

On the hot, fragrant afternoon of my graduation from college it seemed that good fortune was not merely latent but unavoidable, folded and in the bag.