Quotes About Fortune

More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans. And

So this is what luck looks like, is it? I've often wondered.

We all have luck, good and bad. It's how you meet it that matters

It's easy to scream about the fence when you're on the wrong side of it. Some mad twist of fortune lands you on the right side, though, the fence starts to look like it might not be such a bad idea. Might even be worth all the sacrifices. Other people's sacrifices aren't that hard to make.

There are few blessings without a curse hidden inside, nor curses without a whiff of blessing.

Joy is the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune, or by the prospect of possessing what one desires, the expression or exhibition of such emotion, a state of

In any random slaughter, the difference between living and dying rarely has anything to do with willpower, or wisdom, or pluck. It's just a matter of where you're standing. Two inches to the right, and the bus hits you. If your office is on the ninety-second floor instead of the ninetieth, you don't make it out in time.

Thorough preparation makes its own luck.

But for his grace, things could have turned out differently, many times.

I am prosperous. I am coming into overflow.

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

There's no such thing as chance;And what to us seems merest accidentSprings from the deepest source of destiny.

In thy breast are the stars of thy fate.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.

Do you wish to roam farther and farther?See! The Good lies so near.Only learn to seize good fortune,For good fortune's always here.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.

By Fortune's adverse buffets overborne To solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn, And not in utter loneliness to live, Myself at last did to the Devil give!

Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.

Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.