Quotes About Fortune

Be sure to foresee whatever can be foreseen by planning. Observe and avoid, long before it happens, anything that is likely to do you harm. To effect this your best assistance will be a spirit of confidence and a mind strongly resolved to endure all things. He who can bear Fortune, can also beware of Fortune. At any rate, there is no dashing of billows when the sea is calm. And there is nothing more wretched or foolish than premature fear. What madness it is to anticipate one's troubles!

No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars. Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.

It is often hazardous to marry an heiress, as she is not unfrequently the last of a diseased family.

in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

Nonna Rosa, perché il tuo Dio permette che ci siano persone come Peggy e me? E' una fortuna che sia così, Oscar, perché la vita sarebbe meno bella senza di voi.

Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect behind her.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Calamities are of two kinds misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

On any given day, acts of kindness occur all across the city. Someone gives up their bed so someone else can rest their tired, aching bones. Someone hands a bit of change to a stranger. There's hot soup and good fortune, soft words and bread. Then there are the cruel things that happen, the worst that you can imagine. Heaven help you if even one of them finds you. The memory of it will never let you alone.

Ak?ll? olman için dua etmiyorum. Ak?ll? olursan akl?n? güçlülerin hizmetine verirsin. Talihli olman? istiyorum ki ak?ll? insanlar sana hizmet etsinler.

Concentration attracts luck factor.

There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

Fortune frowns as often as he smiles, and you don't want to be in his line of sight when he does.

Do you believe that evil and tragedy are always planned? You don't think Fortune has anything to do with it?

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

Of verse eternal I've the art. And men Are gladdened by my voice, which speaks but truth. The supreme reason that I proudly bear Could not be bought for all a world of gold. All have I touched: women, apples, fire; All have I felt: winter, spring, and summer; All have I found, for no wall can halt me. But tell me, Fortune, what then is thy name? Charles Cros, 1842–1888

He would have liked it if everyone could have what he dreamed, glory and love, fortune and peace of heart. [On F. Scott Fitzgerald]

Yet had Fleming not possessed immense knowledge and an unremitting gift of observation he might not have observed the effect of the hyssop mould. 'Fortune,' remarked Pasteur, 'favors the prepared mind.

One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.

Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.