261 quotes found
“Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will but it didn't work for the rabbit!”
“Destiny is the invention of the cowardly and the resigned.”
“When you work seven days a week fourteen hours a day you get lucky.”
“This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other we pay for her favors or we go empty away.”
“Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.”
“The more you invest in a marriage the more valuable it becomes.”
“Love doesn't just sit there like a stone it has to be made like bread remade all the time made new.”
“They who await no gifts from chance have conquered fate.”
“The worst cynicism a belief in luck.”
“No man ever wetted clay and then left it as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.”
“Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.”
“To believe in luck ... is skepticism.”
“Shallow men believe in luck wise and strong men in cause and effect.”
“Pennies do not come from heaven- they have to be earned here on earth.”
“It's hard to detect good luck-it looks so much like something you've earned.”
“Luck is what a capricious man believes in.”
“Chance favors those in motion.”
“Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.”
“Work and acquire and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.”
“It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events because in herself she is nothing but is ruled by prudence.”
