Quotes About Fortune

I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.

Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice.

of timing. Also, who on earth says 'good name' these

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

Not double trouble, but twice blessed.

When fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your teeth.

Preparation + Attitude + Opportunity + Action = Luck.

More fortunes in money and in the material things of life have been lost by those who hesitated out of fear than by those who ventured too quickly and without caution.

All good knights, pilgrims, sons in search of fortune, seekers after truth, and plain ordinary fools, turn towards the city they have left and take farewell according to their nature. This is a full moment in all journeying, the time when girths are tightened in preparation for the miles that lie ahead.

I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection.

Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous, and fortune is so blind that in a crowd in which there is perhaps but one wise and brave man it is not to be expected that she should single him out.

The long arm of coincidence.

Nenorocirile vin cu gramada, in timp ce norocul calatoreste intotdeauna signur, spuneau oamenii in vechime.

A hero, he'd once heard, was a person caught in the right place at the wrong t

Pech ist heute nur noch die Würze des Glücks!

What is fate but the whine of the low-born?

The only thing of value on this earth is that each of us is an individual and not a cog in a machine. No man is better than another because of circumstance or fortune, but each important to his own.

A fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place.

Those who wish that success would fall into their laps will wish forever. But those who look at the world as it is, who recognize that the consumer is king, who take the trouble to find out what the consumer wants ~ these men make fortunes. People will always reward them ~ because people will not want to be without their services.

Whenever something serious happens, you're supposed to count yourself lucky and be happy.

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

Every misfortune is a blessing in disguise.

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