Quotes about Fortune

If nothing worse than Ale happens to us, we are well off.

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

The thoughtless, the ignorant, and the indolent, seeing only the apparent effects of things and not the things themselves, talk of luck, of fortune, and chance.

After the hundreds of stories I've heard of atrocities around the globe, I know that if you're a woman born in the United States, you're one of the luckiest women in the world. Take your good fortune and lift your life to its highest calling. Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.

Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

They said that it was no accident of circumstance that a man be born in a certain country and not some other and they said that the weathers and seasons that form a land form also the inner fortunes of men in their generations and are passed on to their children and are not so easily come by otherwise.

People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good.

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.