Quotes About Fortune

But wilde Ambition loves to slide, not stand; And Fortunes Ice prefers to Vertues Land

The world began in hazard and will end in it.

In some profound way, beyond all his reasons and his experience, he was no more than an egoist - he had what I had always detected, and loathed, in Conservative philosophy… the belief that the fortunate must at all costs be allowed to retain their good fortune

I understand that not everyone is so lucky; a precious few have it easier, but most have it harder. I might once have said that you make that kind of luck for yourself, and in some ways you do, but it's just as often true that people end up where they are through no fault of their own and are then faced with making the best of it.

Yet by some stroke of almost providential good fortune, he became wanted.

Rarely is success an accident, but when it is, rarely does it last.

I have very little," he said, and he spoke as if having little were the greatest fortune, and the greatest buffer against the future, that a man could wish.

He felt fortunate to be with Helen; she had her own ambitions and he could not manipulate here.

It was a deus-ex-machina world!

Even if there is only death after death (after death), be grateful for small favors—sometimes there is birth after sex, for example. And, if you are very fortunate, sometimes there is sex after birth! Oh yeth, as Alice Fletcher would have said. And if you have life, said Garp's eyes, there is hope you'll have energy. And never forget, there is memory

Fortuna, that vicious slut.

Luck is the residue of design.

The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune.

ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

GLOUCESTERNow, good sir, what are you?EDGARA most poor man made tame to fortune's blows, Who by the art of known and feeling sorrowsAm pregnant to good pity.

There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate

When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud.

Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.

Blessings often give rise to injury, so be careful when things are going your way. Success may be achieved after failure, so don't just give up when you've been disappointed.

We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith.

My grandfather was a faith healer and medium and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.

Sorry hun, but unlike you, I'm not a doorknob where everyone gets a turn. I'm more of a casino where only the lucky ones hit the jackpot.

Be grateful that you are still alive, still kicking, and still able to fight another day, because not everyone was even fortunate enough to wake up and continue to pray for a better tomorrow.