Quotes About Fortune

Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.

Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.

In my life, all of the best things that have happened to me have almost invariably been accidents or fate.

I was blessed in the sense that I got handed so much early on in life. I got a lot of the things people go through their 20s and 30s craving.

I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.

Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

My body is a reflection of how grateful I am for my life and my health; there are a lot of people less fortunate than me.

PENNY, CARRIE, AND Bess are the daughters of Tipper and Harris Sinclair. Harris came into his money at twenty-one after Harvard

I am the eldest Sinclair grandchild. Heiress to the island, the fortune, and the expectations. Well, probably.

Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.

Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.

There's never any great risk as long as you have money.

For my face?" "It has been my fortune before to-night, Bunny. It has also given me more confidence than you are likely to believe at this time of day. You stimulate me more than you think." "Your gallery and your prompter's box in one?

Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity, and opportunity is there all the time.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Success is a matter of luck. Ask any future.

All things come alike to all there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked.

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Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.

I live this life as have the fates decreed.

Hain't life woth livin', Uncle Jabez?" she asked. He laughed a short, harsh laugh and fell silent. "Waal, I dunno, Judy," he said at last, meditatively shifting his quid of tobacco. "I reckon it makes a big diff'rence who you live it with an' a bigger diff'rence yet what work yuh lay yer hand to. Both o' them things, as I see it, is a matter of luck.

Destiny knows no favorites.

It is important to this people to grapple with the problems connected with the amassing of enormous fortunes, and the use of those fortunes, both corporate and individual, in business.… No amount of charity in spending such fortunes in any way compensates for misconduct in making them.

It is the mynd, that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happie, rich or poore: For some, that hath abundance at his will, Hath not enough, but wants in greatest store; And other, that hath litle, askes no more, But in that litle is both rich and wise. For wisedome is most riches; fooles therefore They are, which fortunes doe by vowes deuize, Sith each vnto himselfe his life may fortunize.