Quotes About Fortune

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

Providence turns the wheels of destiny.

Your darkest experiences often lead you to your brightest fortunes.

Do you ever feel lucky to have me?

It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it.

It's better to be lucky than smart.

Yet they, believe me, who await No gifts from Chance, have conquer'd Fate.

Yet they, believe me, who awaitNo gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

Fate gave, what Chance shall not control,His sad lucidity of soul.

They... who await No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

It could just as easily have been me. That reminder of human frailty and the role that fortune and misfortune play in our lives prevented me from becoming too prideful. Better men than me had died over in the sandbox, often purely by chance. Were you in the lead vehicle, or at the tail end of the convoy? Sometimes it came down to which side of a vehicle you were sitting on when something went ka-boom. Why did the invisible shard of flying metal hit the Marine to your right instead of you?

Money is good, but it is not all about a man. You will have successes and reversals, but remember it is your reaction to each of them that counts for your character.

The human beings I know are mostly wonderful people, but they often fail to distinguish clearly between what they worked for and the good things that came their way. They also are not so good at seeing the difference between the character flaws of other people and bad things that happen to them.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful, the Nature of man alone consider'd."67 Conversely, "nothing is so likely to make a man's fortune as virtue."68

I think I palsied fate; and I long took pride in this gift.

Kirk Douglas had engineered his social life with the cynical goal of meeting the rich and powerful, he would have ignored this Lauren Bacall. But so cynical and narrow-focused an approach isn't likely to produce good luck. The lucky personality gets to know everybody in sight: the rich and the poor, the famous the humble, the sociable and even the friendless and the cranky.

Life is a gamble, but if your happy, you will always come out on top

The people's good fortune is my misfortune!

The fortunate man is seldom satisfied with the fact of being fortunate, beyond this he needs to know that he has a right to his good fortune. He wants to be convinced he deserves it and above all that he deserves it in comparison with others. Good fortune, thus wants to be legitimate fortune.

Words are soldiers of fortune Hired by different ideas.

Perhaps I shall take my fortune and retire to the country and read novels where other characters must bother with these sorts of troubles.

And if you'd been healthy and happy, you wouldn't have come home?" "When everything is lost a man seeks refuge, as if he were returning to his mother's womb." "And after that?" "After that he forgets. He's driven to it by his restlessness. He wants to be what he was not, or what he was. He runs away from his fortune and looks for another.

My fortune seemed to obvious to be predicting. Finn's fortune would have been more interesting; I couldn't imagine how he would be anything but sixteen, anywhere but in that hut by the sea, his face and limbs any more or less graceful than they were now. It was like imagining a future for Peter Pan.

Bad things can happen to anyone at any time, whether you follow the rules or not.