Quotes About Fortune

Don't be angry with the world. It will never hear you, sympathize with you or care about you. Life is a privilege not a right. You make your own luck. You get what you put in.

Weak, shallow people believe in luck... Strongly willed people believe in cause and effect.

Sometimes I look at you and I wonder how I got to be so damn lucky.

Lucky is the man who is the first love of a woman, but luckier is the woman who is the last love of a man.

Life, what a riddle! Some are born with silver spoon and perhaps many without spoon. Some with more privileges than many. But one thing is common to all, THE GIFT OF LIFE! It is what we make out of it that count most.

To live life with contentment is your choice as contentment is the greatest wealth. For greatest contentment, don't wait for things to happen. Make it happen by vision, efforts and commitment. Look at every opportunity as a door for fortune and strive to utilize every available moment to make it worth a success story.

Nobody deserves misery but sometimes it's just your turn.

The best things that have ever happened to me have not been the result of anything I have done. Some might say that is luck. I call them blessings and in some cases miracles.

It was fated long ago, fated a hundred different ways.

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

I've been rich and I've been poor, and rich is better.

The happiness police are going to come and arrest us if we go on this way. Arrest us for our luck.

Quand la poisse vous étreint dans le ventre de votre mère, elle ne vous lâche plus.

Sometimes before your luck can be good,someone else's has to be bad

That's how it can happen sometimes. Just when you thought there was nothing left for Fortune to throw at you, she deals you a low blow. Kindness.

He thought astrology was a load of bosh! Didn't believe in stars and planets telling his fortune or anyone else's.

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.

a good heart never had luck

he was also abundantly rich:

For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among them) and that fame is transitory, the manner in which—by means of a sort of snapshot—we take cognisance of this moving universe whirled along by Time, has the contrary effect of immobilising it.

And so her parents-in-law, whom she still regarded as the most eminent people in France, declared that she was an angel; all the more so because they preferred to appear, in marrying their son to her, to have yielded to the attraction rather of her natural charm than of her considerable fortune.

It is a mistake," Labruyère tells us, "to be in love without an ample fortune.

We desire some pleasure, and the material means of obtaining it are lacking. "It is a mistake," Labruyère tells us, "to be in love without an ample fortune." There is nothing for it but to attempt a gradual elimination of our desire for that pleasure.

Proust's life changed due to a very large inheritance he received (in today's terms, a principal of about $6 million, with a monthly income of about $15,000).