Quotes About Fortune

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

In bad times, the rich usually get richer.

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.

Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

Anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

With a modest amount of looks and talent and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into more than half a century of good fortune.

Live with the assumption that every day it will rain. If it does, you were right. If it doesn't, you were fortunate.

My friends, we should consider ourselves fortunate, not because we are any greater or lesser because we face adversity, rather we simply rejoice in the opportunity to face it.

Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)

The gift within every gift is always opportunity.

You are the most lucky person in the world, only if you BELIEVE so.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Sometimes blessings are indiscriminate.

Understand that the most Luck You have come , because of others.

Malheur ne vient jamais seul.

As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious one is the curious sense which comes to us from time to time, that we belong to the whole, that a certain basic well being can never be taken away from us whatever the turn of fortune.

There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honorable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

The shirt touches his neck and smooths over his back. It slides down his sides. It even goes down below his belt— down into his pants. Lucky shirt.

There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away. And how can you not forgive? You make a feast in honor of what was lost, and take from its place the finest garment, which you saved for an occasion you could not imagine, and you weep night and day to know that you were not abandoned, that happiness saved its most extreme form for you alone.

Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.

luck is not a thing that happens to you. Luck is everything that happens to you. The good, the bad, the in-between. And luck is what you make happen. Luck is how you see the events of your life and how you respond to them" -Aunt Jenny