Quotes about Fortune
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
— Euripides
bad fortune is really just as good for you as good fortune is, in fact, it is better, because, he says, bad fortune teaches, while good fortune deceives. When
— Peter Kreeft
If you've been fortunate enough to do a film that appeals to the entire family, that's the audience that's probably going to come back to you in something else.
— Julie Andrews
The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall to-day be uppermost.
— Confucius
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
— Cormac McCarthy
There is no such thing as chance, or fortune; nor is there a readier way to gain the fear of God, and to put our whole trust in Him, than to be thoroughly versed in the doctrine of Predestination.
— Loraine Boettner
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
— Publilius Syrus
Necessity and chance approach not me, and what I will is fate.
— John Milton
... plunged into chance, --that is to say, swallowed up in Providence
— Victor Hugo
People who are rich, successful, and beautiful may well go through life relying on their natural gifts.
— Philip Yancey
circumstances, whether fortunate or unfortunate, are morally neutral. They simply are what they are; what matters is how we respond to them. Good and evil, in the moral sense, do not reside in things, but always in persons.
— Philip Yancey
We've all received our share of good fortune, so that's my definition of much. A single blessing is all the bounty in the world, and if you've been blessed at all you're meant to pass some of that on. You're meant to set a positive example. That's our responsibility (20) - Denzel Washington, So that We Might Follow
— Denzel Washington