Quotes About Fortune

A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves.

Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man fortunate.

and life beats on, and we nurse our lives with tears, to the sound of ripping linen beat our robes in sorrow, close to the breast the beats throb and laughter's gone and fortune throbs and throbs.

For not many men . . . can love a friend who fortune prospers without envying; and about the envious brain cold poison clings and doubles all the pain life brings him. His own woundings he must nurse, and feel another's gladness like a curse.

Until that moment, I'd been living in my own little universe of good-luck hell.

I will despise whatever lies in the domain of Fortune, but if a choice is offered, I will choose the better half.

What enables him to think of himself as sane is only a certain fragile chemical good fortune, but he knows he would be very much in the market for a tragedy if ever life chose to test him properly.

In democracies, by contrast, the propaganda of the press and public opinion relentlessly promised servants that they, too, could reach the pinnacles of society and make their fortune as industrialists, judges, scientists or even presidents.

the great fortunes of our day have rarely been accumulated through the sale of the most meaningful items and services, such as poetry or relationship counselling.

No cat is bad luck

It is hard to think about your past without tidying it up into a kind of story: one in which you are cast as the hero or victim. Invariably we ignore the regular dice-rolls of chance or random luck; successful high-flyers are typically prone to ignoring the interplay of blind fortune when they credit their career trajectories to their canny business sense or brute self-belief. We tell the story we want to tell, and we live out those stories every day.

My third maxim was to try always to master myself rather than fortune and change my desires rather than changing how things stand in the world.

Our merits create fortune. Our demerits create misfortune. Merits bring us joy. Demerits bring us sorrow. We are thus fettered by karma. Karma binds us to the material world, compels us to be born and compels us to die. No one can change this, except one. That one is God. Pray to God to cope with the fetter of karma.

Within every fortune (the pot of gold) lies wisdom, an idea to be trusted: a belief that makes success sustainable.

Nothing in the Hindu world happens spontaneously. Every event is a reaction to the past, the result of a curse or a boon. Fortune is predestined. Misfortune fated.

Rules always change in times of war and in times of peace, as they do in times of fortune and misfortune.

Where Krishna yokes the mind and Arjuna bears the bow, there is always fortune, success, dominion, stability, and law. That is my opinion.—Bhagavad Gita:

But the world is constantly changing. Things will never remain constant. If we focus only on the coming & going of fortune, we will always be anxious & frustrated. On the other hand, if we focus on learning with every rise & fall, we will keep growing & generating internal Shakti rather than depending on external Durga for our survival.

She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things.

Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.

Your lucky your brains didn't escape right out of there before you got it patched up. Brains like to go their own way sometimes.

You should never feel bad over an outcome whose conclusion was foretold.

Serendipity (n.) finding something good without looking for it

Devia ser uma tarde de felicidade, mesmo para os homens de uma sorte mediana.