Quotes About Fortune

Chance favours the trained mind.

Luck has its rules, if you can understand them, and then it is scarcely luck.

Statesmen may plot and plan. Learned men may calculate and conclude. Diplomats may debate and prevaricate. But chance rules the immediate affairs of humankind.

bad fortune is really just as good for you as good fortune is, in fact, it is better, because, he says, bad fortune teaches, while good fortune deceives. When

The prospect of getting rich is highly motivating, and few people get rich without taking a gamble.

To inspire the players, I adapted a quote from Walt Whitman and taped it on their lockers before the first game of the playoffs, against the Miami Heat. Henceforth we seek not good fortune, we are ourselves good fortune.

mean a thing without the ring." To inspire the players, I adapted a quote from Walt Whitman and taped it on their lockers before the first game of the playoffs, against the Miami Heat. "Henceforth we seek not good fortune, we are ourselves good fortune." Everyone expected us to dance our way to the championship

I've always told people that for each person there is a sentence--a series of words--which has the power to destroy him. When Fat told me about Leon Stone I realized (this came years after the first realization) that another sentence exists, another series of words, which will heal the person. If you're lucky you will get the second; but you can be certain of getting the first: that is the way it works.

He had very few dealings with the government. That was neither a virtue nor a vice; it was simply good luck.

Spegnetevi, vane luci, più non brillate! Non v'è notte nera a sufficienza per chi, In preda alla disperazione, piange la persa fortuna. La luce altro non fa che svelare la vergogna.

Both of them sat silent on the moss-covered rock in the slant of sunlight through the old pines and thought how many tiny chances had conspired to bring them to this place. Each of those chances might have gone a different way.

he walked away understanding, (...) how easily life can be one thing rather than another and how accidentally a destiny is made... on the other hand, how accidental fate may seem when things can never turn out other than they do.

All this, this luck – what did it mean? Coming so suddenly, and on such a scale, it was as baffling as a misfortune.

Nothing that befalls anyone is too senseless to have happened.

Relying on luck, however, does not constitute a policy.

Be lucky, Xander, and be brave. You will find that bravery and luck are often bedfellows.

The two were giddy at their prospects. They were so happy that at times they felt things were going almost too well, that something had to go wrong just to balance things out. But those feelings did not linger.

you know, how people say it's good luck if a bird shits on you? and people believe it! i just want to grab them and say, 'dude, don't you realize this whole superstition was made up because no one could think of anything else good to say to a person who'd just been shit upon?

We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.

Fate has a strange way of making plans.

It might not feel like it, the cop says, but, Cooper, today is your lucky day.

Good luck will be the residue of good design.

in the life of every man there was one great good fortune and one misfortune of equal force.

we are all in our fifties now. Healthwise, we've been fortunate, but it's just a matter of time before our luck runs out and one of us gets cancer. Then we'll be picked off like figures at a shooting gallery, easy targets given the lives we've led.