Quotes About Fortune

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.

Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.

I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.

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

Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.

A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.

Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

The answer is, I chose to seek my fortune. Failed. Lost all. Then got a fortune I had not ever looked for. Lost it though. Got it back. Lost it. Got another - the story is somewhat repetitious.

Disaster' is an astrological term meaning 'bad star.

Look, all I've got is one-and-a-half quadrillion dollars

Gold is where you find it.

And, Randy's favorite, As to luck, there is the old miners' proverb: "Gold is where you find it.

He could have kept his money in The Black Sun and made ten million dollars about a year later when it went public, but his mother would have been a street person. So when his mother visits him in the Metaverse, looking tan and happy in her golfing duds, Hiro views that as his personal fortune. It won't pay the rent, but that's okay—when you live in a shithole, there's always the Metaverse, and in the Metaverse, Hiro Protagonist is a warrior prince.

But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.

Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet

You know, you're a very lucky man." "Why do you say that?" "You've got a full-time job to do.

All rapidly accumulated wealth is either the result of luck or discovery, or the result of a legalised theft.