Quotes About Fortune

Chances are where you find them

There's no such thing as chance, it's all preordained.Lik e KISMET.

... plunged into chance, --that is to say, swallowed up in Providence

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible.

Luck is sometimes merciful. The Game never is.

So much of what happens by chance forms what becomes your life.

If you were born lucky even your rooster will lay eggs.

Chance favours the prepared mind.

If fortune turns against you even jelly breaks your tooth.

How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.

You fellows ever thought of hiring out as a Christmas lights crew? You'd make a fortune.

I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book...on my computer!

I am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people - producers, directors, people who buy tickets - who put confidence in me.

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

Fortune befriends the bold.

You've got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

Fortune helps the brave.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.

Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.

The thing of courage As rous'd with rage doth sympathise, And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key, Retorts to chiding fortune.