Quotes about Fortune

Life is governed by chance, not wisdom.

I would say don't take advice from people like me who have gotten very lucky. We're very biased. You know, like Taylor Swift telling you to follow your dreams is like a lottery winner telling you, 'Liquidize your assets; buy Powerball tickets - it works!'

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

God is frightful, God is great--you pick. I choose this: God is in the details, the completely unnecessary miracles sometimes tossed up as stars to guide us. They are the promise of good fortune in a cloudless day, and the animals in the clouds; look hard enough, and you'll see them. Don't ask if they're real.

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

get your hands on all this moolah?

So the real jaw-dropping news that January morning, the news that had everyone from Toronto to Tokyo crapping in their cornflakes, concerned the contents of Halliday's last will and testament, and the fate of his vast fortune.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.