Quotes about Fortune

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

Good luck is opportunity meeting preparedness.

Everything in life is luck.

When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

If you aim to leave Las Vegas with a small fortune, go there with a large one.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop: there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end.

You probably think you know...The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.