Quotes About Fortune

Good music always defeats bad luck.

There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one.

Good luck is a residue of preparation.

We don't get to choose our formative moments. Very often, adversity and failure shape us more permanently than fortune and success.

Ultimately Rockefeller's confidence games proved wildly successful. At its height, his fortune outstripped those of all the other robber barons-even Carnegie's, by a hair. By 1913, Rockefeller's net worth totaled nearly a billion dollars, or 2 percent of the U.S. gross national product; a comparable share today would give Rockefeller a net worth of $190 billion, or more than triple that of the richest man in the contemporary world, Bill Gates.

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.

For people like this life is just about stuff. Having more than your neighbor and never enough. For these types of folks it's all about fortune and fame. What pays off is good, what does not is lame. So they don't and they won't and they can't understand. It's wisdom, not money that makes life grand.

sit back and watch the money roll in.

This is the goddess Fortuna. She brought luck - or took it away. But you'd put up with whatever she did. Because when she decided to favour you, it made everything worthwhile

Keith Fu, my department chair, dropped by my office. he brought me a latte. I'd just found a fortune cooking in my pocked and I showed it to Keith. Its said, I cannot help you, I am only a cookie.

What I learned at the end of my first week back at work after the holiday break was how rough at least some of that road would be. Keith Fu, my department chair, dropped by my office. He brought me a latte. I'd just found a fortune cookie in my pocket and I showed it to Keith. It said, I cannot help you. I am only a cookie.

And then there were the poets, those unbelievable people so different from other men, who told anyone who would listen that a wish is more important than a fortune, and that a dream can weigh more than iron or steel.

Luck is created by the prepared.

You don't appreciate the fact that madmen are very lucky.

the three-leafed seamair óg holds the true luck—the luck of knowing Brigid.

Maidens, be they never so foolish, yet being fair they are commonly fortunate.

It is a poor sort of fatalism which makes men fold their hands and wait for fortune.

Pay attention to fate.... It will always have the last word.

Chance happens to all ... but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

The public man needs but one patron, namely the lucky moment.

When I looked at my university classmates, I heard in their voices and saw in their lives a freedom I felt had been unfairly taken from me. How oblivious they seemed of their good fortune. I compensated by studying harder, by trying to outdo everyone, to defy—what? I didn't know. It's no wonder that I became such a solitary young woman.

I know how lucky I am, stupid with luck, crammed with it, stumbling drunk. I wake sometimes in the dark terrified by my life's precariousness, its thready breath.

I let the pebbles tumble to the ground from my fingers, where they lie, haphazard or purposeful, an augury or an accident. If Chiron were here, he could read them, tell us our fortunes. But he is not here. "What if he will not beg?" I ask. "Then he will die. They will all die. I will not fight until he does." His chin juts, bracing for reproach. I am worn out. My arm hurts where I cut it, and my skin feels coated with unwholesome sweat. I do not answer.

Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.