Quotes About Fortune

bloated industrials, who were piling up fortunes abroad while they were wrecking their country at home.

Preparation (growth) + Attitude + Opportunity + Action (doing something about it) = Luck

bulk of superstition that is supposed to attend good fortune, and when he wished for white shirts, it was not a genuinely modest wish so much as it was a memory—he could not have put it into words himself—that the gods of fortune are jealous and easily deceived by false modesty. He had never been a superstitious man, but on Tuesday he scooped the money off his coffee table and was elated when he saw a ladybug on the bathroom window sill.

British journalists tend to believe that people who become good at something do so because they seek fame and fortune. This is because these are the sole motives of people who become British journalists. But some people, operating at higher levels of mental health, pursue activities because they actually love them.

British journalists tend to believe that people who become good at something do so because they seek fame and fortune. This is because these are the sole motives of people who become British journalists.

Life is like a turning wheel: you can't always be on the top. Sooner or later you wind up on the bottom.

He said: O my people! why do you seek to hasten on the evil before the good? Why do you not ask forgiveness of Allah so that you may be dealt with mercifully? They said: We have met with ill luck on account of you and on account of those with you. He said: The cause of your evil fortune is with Allah; nay, you are a people who are tried.

To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Don't mistake your blessings for curses...

May your blessings outnumber the Shamrocks that grow. And may trouble avoid you Wherever you go. Happy St. Patrick's Day!

May the leprechauns be near you, to spread luck along your way. And may all the Irish angels, smile upon you on St. Patrick's Day.

I have always lived a very blessed life, but being a good person has always boosted my fortune.

Don't call it luck called it being blessed by God.

It seems when Opportunity knocks, Fate shows up to open the door.

To die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.

If you are demanding registration before checkout, you need to cease this practice immediately. It is costing you a fortune.

However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

I am fortunate in that I am motivated to do what I do by just a really goofy desire to do it. Maybe I have demons that are hidden away someplace, and I'll discover mine someday.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.