Quotes About Fortune

I do truly believe I am fortunate. I am fortunate because I have been able to spend my life in study of the world. As such, I have never felt insignificant. This life is a mystery, yes, and it is often a trial, but if one can find some facts within it, one should always do so - for knowledge is the most precious of all commodities.

It is the custom of the young to be selfish... But someday you will understand that nobody passes through this world without suffering--no matter what you think of them and their supposed good fortune.

Thus does good fortune follow on the steps of the reckless. If

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

On July 25, 1943, the day Mussolini fell, I was with Luce trying to shake off his objection to a long essay I had written for Fortune's philosophy series on the vision of democracy according to Emerson, Melville, Whitman.

In either case, for the moment, luck was on their side.

Shackleton wrote, almost timorously, "This may be the turn in our fortune.

So long as fortune is favouring you, your defects will remain covered.

Maybe coincidence never means the way you want it to. Because if it did it wouldn't be coincidence, would it?

he's always being told how lucky he is to have in a world where so many have so little

Change is the nature of luck.

We need both luck and justice to get to live the life we're meant for, she says.

I have often wondered why I've survived. Yet I know the answer. It's luck. Luck is a greater factor than anyone who succeeds ever wants to believe. The idea that one is destined to be the person who remains standing, the person smart enough to make all the money, to retain the beauty, is far more seductive. If there is good luck, there is bad luck. That is a reality no one wants to contemplate. But it is reality. I am merely lucky to be alive.

Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.

There isn't any way to be. I will meet you where you've gone. The cards are blank; the cards are empty there. If I can just have one last cut. Do you have a plan for the new? The cards be blank. The symbols be over. I will tell my fortune with the blank cards of blank. What do you see?

the rags of chance.

It is an accident that you are well-off, powerful, and content. Would I feel stronger if I saw you weak?

Ik heb geen erfgenamen. Ik wil graag dat jij Willowmere erft, Claire. Het is verschrikkelijk duur om te onderhouden, maar met het geld van oom Al kun je het nog een hele tijd volhouden. Dat krijg je natuurlijk ook... Tenslotte, lieve Alice, moeten we het wel in de familie houden. - Myra

There was such a thing as luck, but to acknowledge its existence was to hold two fingers up to fate.

there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.

Might have a couple of kinks to work through," Hale admitted then reached for her hand. As soon as he touched her, Kat knew there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes--they are the masters of their own fate. And right then Kat wouldn't have changed a thing.

We were two girls who got lucky, and luck's not a skill that anyone can learn

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Había algo en ella de aparición inconcebible que no puede decirse con palabras y sólo conociéndola lograría explicarse la desmesurada fortuna que fue estar a su lado y la tortura inaudita que ha sido perderla.