Fortune Quotes

Beware of leaders who prefer controlling 100 % of nothing over sharing a fortune.

A Resilient Person do not need of good fortune.

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We cannot change the past, she thought. How we long to sometimes, trying to work out how horror might have been averted by a fluke of fortune, a kind intercession, wisdom not yet granted.

Do you believe that evil and tragedy are always planned? You don’t think Fortune has anything to do with it?

Who was more conscious than the soldier of capricious fortune, of the random roll of the dice?

What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible.

But that I should have ended up in a place like this seems too custom-made a nightmare to be the work of mere ill fortune.

A moment comes, and if you wish to look at yourself as human, you must take some kind of action. Otherwise, you can read the newspapers and congratulate yourself on your good fortune.

When you're working, some people relax and wait for the invisible right time, but when they see your fortune, they wake up and strategize an envious attack.

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.

Being the soothsayer of the tribe is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

The universe conspires to steer one in the direction where one can flourish. Bad or good the experience will be a lesson and a lesson learned is fortune measured by wisdom gained.

When you start exercising choices, as against embracing opportunities, you become your own God, leaving precious little in the hands of Almighty!

Talent is divinely gifted, and never to be cheaply exchanged for the sake of trinkets and fame.

O Woman - Allah has made you the Queen of Piety and Modesty, Don't belittle yourself to be the slave of unlawful admiration and mortal fame & fortune.

With a modest amount of looks and talent and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into more than half a century of good fortune.

Acceptance.Good and bad, Fortune and misfortune, Pleasure and pain, I want it all, Because it's mine.

In every day waits fortune like a seed ready to sprout.

Life is so unlikely, so rare and beautiful an opportunity it is to live, we must be on constant guard to ensure that our actions are worthy of the life it takes to perform them.

It is clear looking at statistics of inventions, discoveries and fortune 500 companies, that it is not the believers that are managing the affairs of the earth. What a tragedy!!!

Behind every successful fortune there is a crime.

I'm as lucky as a bed of oysters on cioppino night.

Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately!

Time wasn't the same anymore. Doors were slamming shut before we even knew they'd been opened. Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ability, and enthusiasm to achieve nothing.

Good fortune is created/written/made.

Fortune follows those who can create ideas by connecting old ones. Strong personal brands are created when connection and creation connect.

Sarcasm is the new staircase to stardom.

If I had not try and taken chances, I would have miss many great opportunities in life.

If I had not try and taken chances, I would have miss many opportunities in life.

Back then: to be paid more, one needed to increase the number of things that are by him known. Today: to be paid more, one needs to increase the number of people by whom he is known.

Good fortune and talent are both ingredients of success, but like any recipe, they can be substituted with clever alternatives. The one irreplaceable ingredient I've found, however, is work.

Every body should be given the chance and the necessary support to unearth their full potential.

it's all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent.

Make a wish, ” Oliver said, gesturing to the upturned cup, “and turn it clockwise three times.

If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

Luck is not as random as you think.Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.

What i'm saying is that the sun always rises. Fortune's a mix of good and bad luck. Like they say/ good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope.

Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

Fortune frowns as often as he smiles, and you don’t want to be in his line of sight when he does.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none. Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]

Risk is what you control and fortune is really all about risk. Bottom Line: Fortune comes from big money bets on very low probability events

She couldn’t help but wonder at the events of recent days, and at how—even in the face of such misfortune, there was so much good,

I am sorry

So many stars in the sky, each unique and full of destiny. I wanted more than anything to be part of those stars.I never realized becoming one would destroy me.

Fame for the lames, fortune for the brains.

Fame & fortune come with a price that fame finds insulting and fortune can't afford to pay back.

I dropped my gardening tools, threw my bicycle over a hedge and went in search of fortunes laid beneath the hangman’s noose.