There are persons fated to be fools, who commit follies not only by choice, but who are forced by fortune to do so.

Ceux qui croient avoir du mérite se font un honneur d'être malheureux, pour persuader aux autres et à eux-mêmes qu'ils sont dignes d'être en butte à la fortune.

poor people are often obliged to take chances that rich ones are spared.

Any man who has met with success, if he will be frank with himself, must admit that there has been a big element of fortune in the success.

Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux ont de l'esprit.

Some folks want their luck buttered.

La passion fait souvent un fou du plus habile homme, et rend souvent les plus sots habiles.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

After all, there are many external factors and sometimes it’s just luck of the draw in terms of market “cooperation.

Talk about how various people have been “winners” in “the lottery of life” or have things that others don’t have just because they “happen to have money” is part of the delegitimizing of property as a prelude to seizing it.
Luck certainly plays a very large role in all our lives. But we need to be very clear about what that role is. Very few people just “happen” to have money. Typically, they have it because their fellow human beings have voluntarily paid them for providing some goods or services, which are valued more than the money that is paid for them. It is not a zero-sum game. Both sides are better off because of it — and the whole society is better off when such transactions take place freely among free and independent people.
Who can better decide the value of the goods and services that someone has produced than the people who actually use those goods and services — and pay for them with their own hard-earned money?
Luck may well have played a role in enabling some people to provide valuable goods and services. Others might have been able to do the same if they had been raised by better parents, taught in better schools or chanced upon someone who pointed them in the right direction. But you are not going to change that by confiscating the fruits of productivity. All you are likely to do is reduce that productivity and undermine the virtues and attitudes that create prosperity and make a free society possible.

Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over...

Some dream it, some do it, some do both.