Quotes About Fortune

Allowing yourself to be a conduit for opportunity requires a brand new outlook on life. Lady fortune cannot enter a locked door, you know. And contrary to that wellknown saying, she has rarely been known to knock

People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world.

Industries which have the bad fortune to deal directly with the public—especially where the public's total physical and mental welfare are one's responsibility for periods of from an hour to three or four days at a stretch—will always be fair game for public abuse.

I don't come from money.

They say what's for you won't go past you...

One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.

Who else is there to marry?' she asked a friend; she at least had the great good fortune to be marrying for love.

There are natures doomed to be unfortunate, to find the bitter in the sweet.

However, to the amazement of their neighbors, the Klutzes never got seriously hurt. As clumsy as they were, the Klutzes were twice that lucky!

Jag föddes på en söndag och söndagsbarn är glada och lättsamma och det går bra för dem i livet.

In Success few mornings frown; For the youth, to view the town, When morning came, with Sorrow went Through statued park and street; And they joined a gilded throng, As it coldly moved along Toward the temple built to Fortune, Low to worship at her feet.

In the temple, high in place Stood Dame Fortune, fair of face, Holding Plutus, god of riches, In her fond and fickle arms. Horns of plenty at her feet Emptied half their contents sweet, And winged Cupid stood before her, Fascinated by her charms.

I know not if the dark or bright Shall be by lot, If that wherein my hopes delight, be best or not

Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.

His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

You'll end up right where you're supposed to be. Don't be surprised when you get there. Everything you did was a step in that direction. There is no such thing as bad luck.

When we do not recognize God in our lives and fortunes, it is because we will not, not because we cannot. To doubt or deny his holy, solemn, and awful presence in life is to be wilfully blind.

Chance created the situation; genius made use of it.

No man is satisfied with his fortune, but every man is satisfied with his wit.

He had great faith in his own fortune. When planning anything he always felt in advance firmly convinced of success and fate smiled to him.

Quos vult perdere dementat [Those whom (God) wishes to destroy he drives mad].

El destino nos hace malas o buenas pasadas. Nuestra felicidad, amigo mío, es como el agua en las redes del pescador. Se las echa al mar y se hinchan; se las saca y se deshinchan. Así es la vida.

That's how it is, dear fellow. Fate looks for a head. But we are always judging, 'that's not well—that's not right!' Our luck is like water in a dragnet: you pull at it and it bulges, but when you've drawn it out it's empty! That's how it is.