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Quotes about Fortune

If you aim to leave Las Vegas with a small fortune, go there with a large one.
— Anonymous
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
— Euripides
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
— Euripides
Human misery must somewhere have a stop: there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end.
— Euripides
You probably think you know...The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Most of us are content to exist and breed and fight for the right to do both, and the dominant idea, the foredoomed attest to control one's destiny, is reserved for the fortunate or unfortunate few.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
In ten seconds he had completely lost his appetite and gained on hundred thousand dollars.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Oh, blessed are the simple rich, for they inherit the earth!
— F Scott Fitzgerald
One thing's sure and nothings' surer the rich get richer and the poor get -children In the meantime In between time.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
She truly believed that she carried her own fate in the palm of her hand, as if destiny was nothing more than a green marble or a robin's egg, a trinket any silly girl could scoop up and keep. She believed that all you wanted, you would eventually receive, and that fate was a force which worked with you, not against you.
— Alice Hoffman
She takes the fortune cookies from the bottom of the bag and throws them into a glass bowl she keeps in the closet. She has no desire to know what her future might hold.
— Alice Hoffman
Fate is what you make it, or you will be what it makes of you.
— Alice Hoffman