Quotes About Fortune

The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success.

Chance takers are accident makers.

It cannot be denied, but outward accidents conduce much to fortune; favour, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue: but chiefly, the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands: "Faber quisque fortunæ suæ," saith the poet...

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.

You have a practiced apathy, Mr. Wayne. But a man who doesn't care about the world doesn't spend half his fortune on a plan to save it—and isn't so wounded when it fails that he goes into hiding.

Whenever life gets too good, whenever fate hands you something wonderful, something else gets taken away.

There was a cheapness to the killing; it lacked righteousness. It was like gaining a fortune through inheritance. Lane

If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

plenty of decent people whose lives had been shattered by random events.

Wer nochmal davongekommen ist, mag sich nicht dauernd dran erinnern lassen, dass andere weniger Glück hatten. Dass sie auf Hilfe angewiesen sind. Und ein Recht auf Hilfe haben!

qualunque fortuna tu avessi, tien per certo che tutto sarà castigo» (Manzoni, cap. XXXV). Strappa la massima dal contesto, dov'è ammonizione, e lasciala libera di dichiarare il destino dell'uomo all'infinito.

Možda ništa nije potpuno slu?ajno Možda se neki doga?aji moraju zbiti, pošto-poto. Kao da su ve? zapisani u nekakvoj knjizi sudbine. Poput munje koja je bljesnula još u davna vremena i za koju se oduvijek znalo gdje i kada ?e udariti...

In consiliis nostris fatum nostrum est, the words read. "In our choices lie our fate.

Envy is felt more strongly between near equals than those widely separated in fortune. It does not make sense to envy the Queen of England.

Acquired or artificial prestige is much the most common. The mere fact that an individual occupies a certain position, possesses a certain fortune, or bears certain titles, endows him with prestige, however slight his own personal worth.

What mortal knew the way their fate line would run?

An encounter on a springtime road. The random spinning of fortune's wheel. It can sway us, change us, shape or end our days.

Whichever way the wind blows, it will rain upon the Kindath.

It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck

It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck... Luck was always part of it, one way or another

Constancio C. Vigil: "Desdichado del hombre que finca su fortuna en la caída de un árbol".

La suerte se regala todos los días a las cinco de la mañana en el trabajo".

Some of it is simply luck.