Quotes About Fortune

Fortune, until now kind to me, begins to wear a frowning face.

Good-natured satirists often remark that "the best way to cure an Anarchist is to give him a fortune." Substituting "corrupt" for "cure," I would subscribe to this;

One way to make a fortune is to sell a necessity that is low in cost and repeats.

Is it a reasonable thing, I ask you, for a grown man to run about and hit a ball? Poker's the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and every man's is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork? There's only one way to make a fortune, and that's to down the fellow who's up against you.

If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.

You may say that things happen just by chance, but I don't feel that way.

Skill is a function of chance. It's an intuitive best-use of chance situations.

I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.

Chance is a nickname for Providence.

Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.

For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.

... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.

Times go by turns, and chances change by course, from foul to fair, from better hap to worse.

Chance is a second master.

How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!

There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

Chance has something to say, even how to write a good letter.

Chance gives a smile to the one who is ready to take it

I believe in fate, never in chance.

There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.

The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.