Quotes about Fortune

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

We must master our good fortune or it will master us.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

He was a friendly but sad figure. People said of him: 'A rich man who is not proud. A fortunate man who does not look happy.

When we harness the natural force of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often.

Best followed now is this life, by hurrying, like itself, to a close. Few things remain. He was repulsed in efforts after a pension by certain caprices of law. His scars proved his only medals. He dictated a little book, the record of his fortunes. But long ago it faded out of print--himself out of being--his name out of memory. He died the same day that the oldest oak on his native hills was blown down.

By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike.