Quotes about Fortune
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
- Euripides
If ever there came a morning when mercy and simple good fortune took to their heels and fled, grace alone might have to do.
- Toni Morrison
Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one to anther.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
To get it right, be born with luck or else make it.
- Ruth Gordon
Luck ... taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it, luck goes away.
- Charles Spurgeon
No man was ever wise by chance.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
No man was ever wise by chance.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.
- Laurence Sterne
The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.
- Laurence Sterne
I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.
- Elton John
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.
- Mark Twain