Quotes About Fortune

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Character + Chance = Success

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does.

His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.

Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.

You are incredibly fortunate whatever success falls on you, which is what happened with me.

The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.

Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

I am no stranger to working hard. I have done it all my life. As a result I have become accustomed to expecting success in everything I do. Some people call me lucky, but I know better.

If you think that material success will bring you happiness, relationships, people, places, things, fame, fortune, you definitely should not practice tantra.

Wealth is the sinews of success.

Success is made up of courage, brains, and luck. Since the first two are a function of the third, it's pretty much all luck.

One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.

One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

I am what I am and, you know, I'm a very lucky guy.

Success is an accident. Showing up, even if it's just for 5 minutes, makes us accident-prone.