Quotes About Fortune

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy. Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae

Such things happen.

Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!

Them that die'll be the lucky ones.

Few people realize that luck is created, just as money

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.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

I don't believe in fate, she said at last. But I do believe in... loopholes. I think a lot of what keeps the world going is the result of accidents — happy or otherwise — and taking advantage of these.

I think a lot of what keeps the world going is the result of accidents—happy or. otherwise—and taking advantage of these.

Life really does favor the obsessed. Great fortune truly does shine on those mesmerized by their gorgeous ambitions. And the universe most definitely supports the human being unwilling to surrender to the forces of fear, rejection and self-doubt.

There is in the worst of fortune the best chances for a happy change.

In the East they say that luck favors the prepared mind. I believe that life favors the prepared mind.

What is luck, my friend?" Julian replied kindly. "It is nothing more than the marriage of preparation with opportunity.

Qué es la suerte, John? —replicó él afablemente—. Nada más que la suma de preparación y oportunidad.

Todo el mundo tiene la fortuna entre las manos, como un escultor que maneja el material que transformará en una figura... Es necesario aprender y cultivar atentamente la habilidad para moldear el material y darle la forma que queramos.

tsunami of abundance will be sent to you.

Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. . . . The skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated." —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every decision we make, every step we take, must be informed by our commitment to living a life that is true and honest and authentic to ourselves and ourselves alone. And as we proceed, we are certain to experience fortune well beyond our highest imagination. I

luck is nothing but combination of preparation and oppurtinity

In the East they say that luck favors the prepared mind.

What about fateful turns in your life? Naturalists like Thomas Hardy proposed that some people are simply born under 'a blighted star' like his heroine in Tess of the D'Urbervilles. If so, then no matter what we did, we couldn't improve our lives.

Yes,' it announced then. 'You are the one.' 'The one what?' I said. 'The one I will accompany. You've no objection to a bird of ill omen following you, have you, Corwin?' It chuckled then, and executed a little dance.

Daddy used to say a common crow's droppings brought uncommon good luck.