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Quotes About Fortune

I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?
~ Jill Konrath
In softball . . . , the softball gods giveth and the softball gods taketh away, but that evens out over the season.
~ Yvette Girouard
Musicians should never forget that we're blessed. We have a special gift that people can enjoy through us. We've had the good fortune to receive this and pass it along to others.
~ Ed Thigpen
Good music always defeats bad luck
~ Jack Vance
If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.
~ Antoine Rivarol
Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.
~ Plautus
Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift of what must otherwise be ravished from him by cruel necessity.
~ David Hume
But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast, And with the half-blown rose; but Fortune, O!
~ William Shakespeare
A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.
~ Joseph Addison
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
~ Seneca the Younger
Luck and nature shapes our imagination.
~ Kishore Bansal
In other hand of the enemy will arise the fortune hero.
~ Lena Hussain
If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.
~ Liane Moriarty
Misfortune may become fortune through patience.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Patience and shuffle the cards.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
~ C. S. Lewis
Some are born to fail. Others have it thrust upon them.
~ Strother Martin
Atra esterni' ono thelduin Mor' rana li'fa unin hjarta onr Un du evari'nya ono varda (May good fortune rule over you peace live in your heart may the stars watch over you)
~ Christopher Paolini
Great fortune and peace of mind seldom live together.
~ Aditya Ajmera
Life's a wheel of fortune and y'all can't buy a vowel.
~ Lil' Kim
Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
~ Gordon Lightfoot
If a man who can't count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?
~ Stanis?aw Lem
I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy