Quotes About Fortune

Why is it that when good things happen, more good things happen?

Sometimes serendipity must be seduced.

She was a hostage to fortune, held captive by her public image, bound by the constitutional circumstance of her unique position as the Princess of Wales and a prisoner of her day-to-day life.

Continuing high unemployment, the legacy of the General Strike and the Trade Disputes Act, and a long period in power had weakened the Baldwin Government, for which Churchill had some responsibility. Yet once more he was fortunate in his defeat: he would not have wanted to be chancellor of the Exchequer during the Wall Street Crash later that year.

Fortune is a liberal mistress; I have often said so, and now begin to experience

Fortune is a liberal mistress; I have often said so, and now begin to experience it.

Sometimes, what looks like bad luck may turn out to be good luck and vice versa

sensed that Fortune was abandoning me. I no longer had in me the feeling of ultimate success, and if one is not prepared to take risks when the time is ripe, one ends up doing nothing.' Napoleon on the Waterloo campaign

I don't know why I have a pattern of running into hand-destroying situations, but that seems to be my lot in life.

So in the end careful interviewing doesn't guarantee you anything, it merely increases your odds of getting lucky.

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

A coward,' he declared with dignity, when he'd stopped coughing and had got his breath back, 'dies a hundred times. A brave man dies but once. But Dame Fortune favours the brave and holds the coward in contempt.' — Dandelion

Or we won't meet again," he added softly. "No one knows what's written for anybody. Or what will befall them.

El cobarde muere cien veces. El hombre valiente muere sólo una vez. Pero la Señora Fortuna al atrevido ayuda, al cobarde siempre despreció tiene.

El cobarde muere cien veces. El hombre valiente muere sólo una vez. Pero la Señora Fortuna al atrevido ayuda, al cobarde siempre desprecio tiene.

The mill of destiny is turning, the querns of fate are grinding… Whatever is destined must occur.

How would you create a fortune?' and the first step would be to serve others. I would put myself in a position, by serving others, to be around people who could help me, guide me, and share their wisdom and experience with me.

May your luck soon be brighter! With such fine work, I know it will.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Fate keeps on happening.

Fate keeps happening.

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.