Quotes About Fortune

Strano, in qualche modo si ha sempre l'impressione di essere fortunati, che una qualche circostanza, magari infinitesima, ci trattenga sull'orlo della disperazione e ci conceda di vivere.

Survival without renunciation of any part of one's own moral world – apart from powerful and direct interventions by fortune – was conceded only to very few superior individuals, made of the stuff of martyrs and saints.

Strange, how in some way one always has the impression of being fortunate, how some chance happening, perhaps infinitesimal, stops us crossing the threshold of despair and allows us to live.

May he have an accident shaped like an umbrella.

Audentes fortuna iuvat. La fortuna favorece a los audaces

O fortunatos nimium sua si bona norint, agricolas

Life's deceit may Fortune's fawning Turn to scorn, yet, as you grieve, Do not anger, but believe In tomorrow's merry dawning. When your heart is rid at last Of regret, despair and fear, In the future, what has passed Shall in kinder light appear

The author wishes to thank: Good fortune, Godiva chocolates, and Slim-Fast

If coincidence can give, it can take.

He said that the penny would not bring us luck, that even if it had been a million dollars, it would not of itself bring us luck and change our lives, that what happened to us was of our election—and therefore allowed us more hope than luck could ever provide.

Balzac had written, "Behind every great fortune, there is a crime," which was both a cliché and a lie. However

Beneficiary of a seven-figure trust fund, destined to inherit a greater fortune

it contains a zippered pouch holding forty thousand dollars in hundreds and twenties.

Behind every great fortune, there is a crime

earned him in excess of twenty million dollars.

He needs what humans call luck, and we both know there's no such thing as luck, only God

Fate. Now that's a loaded word. Like yoga or karma, it's one of those words that slipped out of its native culture and ended up a celebrity with an extreme makeover.

what we want to believe about life: that good comes of bad and all the absurdities play out in your favor.

Life unaffected by the blows of Fortune is a dead sea

If illness didn't kill you, you died of bad luck.

Survival was a breeze that touched some and not others. Neither hope nor hopelessness had anything to do with it.

We rolled up the pain, assigned it to a shelf, left it there, with a certain self-congratulatory sense of relief at our own good fortune as we looked the other way [...] and soon, we forgot we had ever felt any discomfort.

We are all, as ever, the playthings of the Gods, and none of us can say what our tomorrows may bring;

We've all received our share of good fortune, so that's my definition of much. A single blessing is all the bounty in the world, and if you've been blessed at all you're meant to pass some of that on. You're meant to set a positive example. That's our responsibility (20) - Denzel Washington, So that We Might Follow