Quotes about Fortune
To get it right, be born with luck or else make it.
— Ruth Gordon
Luck ... taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it, luck goes away.
— Charles Spurgeon
No man was ever wise by chance.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
No man was ever wise by chance.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.
— Laurence Sterne
The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.
— Laurence Sterne
I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.
— Elton John
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.
— Mark Twain
To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
— Victor Hugo
I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt