Quotes About Fortune

He was the complete male in miniature, the tiny acorn from which the mighty oak must grow, the heir of all ages, the inheritor of unfulfilled renown, the child of progress, the darling of the budding Golden Age, and, what's more, Fortune and her Fairies, not content with well-nigh smothering him with their blessings of time and family, saved him up carefully until Progress was rotten-ripe with Glory.

You may be sure that we are as well aware as you of the difficulty of contending against your power and fortune, unless the terms be equal. But we trust that the gods may grant us fortune as good as yours, since we are just men fighting against unjust, and that what we want in power will be made up by the alliance of the Lacedaemonians, who are bound, if only for very shame, to come to the aid of their kindred. Our confidence, therefore, after all is not so utterly irrational.

Yet we know that in war fortune sometimes makes the odds more level than could be expected from the difference in numbers of the two sides. And if we surrender, then all our hope is lost at once, whereas, so long as we remain in action, there is still a hope that we may yet stand upright.

Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.

For a change, Lady Luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish

But Lando was a gambler. A true gambler never folded when he still had cards left to play.

what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.

luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.

On the other hand, I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.

Chance is a funny thing. A fat one and a slim one are the same thing.

You might get lucky and die in some corner. ~Soi Fon

He whom the Gods love dies young.

Luck isn't a wheelbarrow, Maurice; it works better if you don't push it. Stay

The bad end unhappily; the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

If ever there came a morning when mercy and simple good fortune took to their heels and fled, grace alone might have to do.

More than anything else, the welfare states of the mid-20th century established the profound indecency of defining civic status as a function of economic good fortune.

i've come to deliver some bad luck -train heartnet

i worked hard in order to get lucky

All told, some $594 million in ingots—the equivalent of $10 billion in 2001 dollars—would over the course of the next decade be leaving the goldfields of California for the eastern United States.

Raising a mere $15,800 in cash, the Big Four, as history would know them, formed an enterprise that over the next decades would earn them $200 million in profits.

It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.

If we get lucky, it will grow hair.

Fate has a way of getting what she wants, no matter how we try to avoid it.