Quotes About Fortune

Fate, it's there, it only takes you so far though, then the rest is up to you.

she was also an extremely poor one, and, as he himself had lost his fortune, they went scarcely anywhere, and were the sort of people who were apt to be overlooked except on great occasions, when they had the good fortune to bury or marry a relative.

Our desires cut across one another's paths, and in this confused existence it is but rarely that a piece of good fortune coincides with the desire that clamoured for it.

Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from the gods, who determine what is needed for the welfare of the whole universe, of which you are a part.

Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes from herself, and it is her own motions which affect her. As for the contingencies of fortune, they are either great or little, according to the opinion she has of her own strength.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason.

No luck was dumb because luck was just another name for miracle.

for, I am not Covetous, but as Ambitious as ever any of my Sex was, is, or can be; which is the cause, That though I cannot be Henry the Fifth, or Charles the Second; yet, I will endeavour to be, Margaret the First: and, though I have neither Power, Time nor Occasion, to be a great Conqueror, like Alexander, or Cesar; yet, rather than not be Mistress of a World, since Fortune and the Fates would give me none, I have made One of my own.

Fortune offers you opportunities to create; she does not hand you presents.

Il petrolio è la merda del diavolo, non ti fidare di quello che sembra una fortuna. Perché è peggio di una trappola per scimmie. E sempre quello che per i ricchi è una fortuna, per i poveri è una disgrazia.

He had been born thrifty which was fortunate, for he was too earnest and humble ever to win earthly riches.

A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side.

Lightning could strike twice, three times, or ten. When you're on the wrong side of the odds, the odds are meaningless. They don't protect you or give you comfort.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Fate is never fair. This is why there is such a thing as magic.

And since human minds are very good at finding patterns, and ours had recently shifted from looking for bad luck to looking for good, we wrote off setbacks as expected, rather than proof of misfortune.

I feel very fortunate that I was raised in a multicultural family, and it came through food.

I was born into wealth and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like food or air.

I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.

It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim, My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.