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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #fortune
Failure gives the bald hairs; equips the novice with experience. The learner, sooner or later, becomes a teacher by it. ↗
#inspirational #motivational #the-fortune-in-failing #experience
I have been so very, very fortunate in my life. I've met or been in contact with several of my childhood heroes. I've interacted with people all over this planet, and even though I couldn't possibly hope to remember all their names, I remember a photograph, a poem, a sound, a joke, kind words of encouragement. All is not lost. ↗
#encouragement #friendship #good-fortune #heroes #interaction
Normality wasn't in the days I'd left behind me: it was only to be found in whatever fortune placed in my path each morning. ↗
Say farewell to luck when winning. It is the way of the gamblers of reputation. Quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat. Lock up your winnings when they are enough, or when great. Continuous luck is always suspect; more secure is that which changes. Though half bitter and half sweet, it is more satisfying to the taste. The more luck pyramids, the greater the danger of slip and collapse. For luck always compensates her intensity by her brevity. Fortune wearies of carrying anyone long upon her shoulders. ↗
Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women. ↗
it's all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent. ↗
Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life ↗
