Quotes About Fortune

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it.

Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck, and to effectively gain her favor.

Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.

The morning has gold in its mouth.

We must endure what fortune sends.

Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.

If a man looks sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Opportunity knocks but once.

If Fortune calls, offer him a seat.

Opportunity rarely knocks until you are ready. And few people have ever been really ready without receiving opportunity's call.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

We all envy other people's luck.

Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.

Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one to anther.

People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

There are so many people with all kinds of lucky things happening to them, and they don't know how to use it.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Luck ... taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it, luck goes away.