Into Motivation

Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Fate laughs at probabilities". Quotes by Anita Brookner "All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and...you don't win the favour of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold". Quotes by Elizabeth Dorothea "Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat". Quotes by Ambrose Bierce "Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others". Quotes by Samuel Beckett "What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes". Quotes by Francis Bacon "If a man ... Read More

Quotes by John Dryden "Ill fortune seldom comes alone. Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more". Quotes by William Robertson Davies "What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us". Quotes by Sir Winston Churchill "Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely let the reader mark it that they are identical". Quotes by Lydia Maria Child "Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such ... Read More

Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte "Has he luck?" Quotes by Henry Miller "In this life I am god, and like God, I am indifferent to my own fate". Quotes by William Julius Mickle "For there's nae luck about the house, There's nae luck as a': There's little pleasure in the house, When our gudeman's awa'". Quotes by Anita Loos "Fate keeps on happening". Quotes by Frank Loesser "Luck be a lady tonight" Quotes by Livy "Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given on the same man". Quotes by Stephen Butler Leacock "I ... Read More

Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne "My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered". Quotes by Brett Harte "The only sure thing about luck is that it will change". Quotes by Thomas Hardy "Some folk want their luck buttered". Quotes by John Milton Hay "Good luck is the gayest of all gay girls; Long in one place she will not stay". Quotes by Richard Graves "Each curs'd his fate, that thus ... Read More

Quotes by Sophocies "Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted. Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man fares well and the man who fares badly; and thee is no prophet of the future for mortal men". Quotes by William Shakespeare "III blows the wind that profits nobody. One writ with me in sour misfortune's book! Not the ill wind which blows man no good. Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may ... Read More

Quotes by Sir Thomas Wyatt "Fortune's friend is mishap's woe". Quotes by Virginia Woolf "One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph". Quotes by Simone Well "If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else". Quotes by John Webster "Fortune's a right whore: If she ... Read More