Quotes About Fortune

Here rests his head upon the lap of EarthA youth to fortune and to fame unknown.Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth,And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.

Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown. Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own.

Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A youth to Fortune and Fame unknown.

These purblind Doomsters had as readily strownBlisses about my pilgrimage as pain.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Qui jacet in terra non habet unde cadat. In me consumpsit vires fortuna nocendo, Nil superest ut iam possit obesse magis." (loosely translated: "He who lies on the ground can fall no farther. In me, Fortune has exhausted her power of hurting; nothing remains that can harm me anymore.")

By many a happy accident.

fortuitous chance.

Luck never just happens. What people call bad luck is just the result of their own foolishness or carelessness or both, and what people call good luck is just the result of their own wisdom and carefulness and common sense.

How much good fortune had been strewn her way, starting with a man who still put up with her crankiness and irrationalities, who stayed loyal and devoted to her, as if she were the flag of his country.

Since I am ignorant, please care for me in the best way possible." Make the following supplication as well: If being sick is best, please make me ill; If being cured is best, please restore my health; If being dead is best, please make me die; If long life is best, please prolong my life; If shorter life is best, please shorten my life. May all enjoy the fortune of enlightenment.222

I have everything on my side except destiny

We can't always be unlucky in my experience. And so, my dear friend: courage, patience and resignation.

You've got to take life's opportunities where you find them.

obscene wealth, was often more of a curse than a blessing.

Yes, we have some cash.

I'm hesitant to ascribe too much to luck because I think women have a bad habit of doing that. At the same time, there's no question that I entered the market at the right moment.

There's no reason but luck that I'm in one of the biggest bands in music.

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

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

What I couldn't have dreamed of is that the fame would last for the rest of our lives without me having to play another note.

It looks like I've been smart about it, but truly, I've been incredibly lucky to have the right people notice me and want to work with me.