Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.

But now our fate from unmomentous things, may rise like rivers out of little springs.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.

Chance generally favors the prudent.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

The wheel goes round and round, some are up and some are on the down, and still the wheel goes round.

Every one is the architect of his own fortune.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

There is tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries; on such a full sea we are now afloat; and we must take the current the clouds folding and unfolding beyond the horizon. when it serves, or lose our ventures.