Quotes about Fortune
I say luck is when an opportunoty comes along, and you're prepared for it.
- Denzel Washington
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
- Lucille Ball
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Whatever limits us we call Fate.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We never conceive the greatness of our fates.
- Henry David Thoreau
Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.
- Publilius Syrus