Quotes about Fortune

The world is filled with an abundance of opportunity.

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

I firmly believe in luck. And I noticed: the more I work, the luckier I become.

Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as scientific as an old woman secretly poring over books about occultism, trying to tell her own fortune, and learning how to dope out the future form the lines in the palm of her hand. I don't know if I ever got very close to needing a padded cell: but if I ever had gone crazy, I think psychoanalysis would have been the one thing chiefly responsible for it.

Fate bestows its rewards on those who put themselves in the proper attitude to receive them.

It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.

Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.

Born on Monday, fair in the face; Born on Tuesday, full of God's grace; Born on Wednesday, sour and sad; Born on Thursday, merry and glad; Born on Friday, worthily given;

If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.