Quotes About Fortune

People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace and contentment in their lives. Everyone thinks they want to be famous until the paparazzi are in their face, and then they're asking, 'Just give me some privacy.'

A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.

I really have the good fortune that the actors who work with me on 'The Leftovers' are thoughtful, hard working, open people and generous people.

I know that I am a lucky guy. I know that after an accident like the one I had, you know, only one guy out of a thousand can really go back home and still live. And I am that one. So I am totally aware of that.

The first hundred thousand - that was hard to get, but afterwards, it was easy to make more.

I've hit the Pick 6 for a hundred thousand a couple of times. A few more for 60, 70 thousand.

I've had an exciting time I married for love and got a little money along with it.

The Prince to a slightly more upbeat view of human action. In order "not to rule out our free will," he arrives at a formula by which Fortune is "the arbiter of half the things we do, leaving the other half or so to be controlled by ourselves.

So the Lord was with Joseph, and Joseph was a lucky fellow' was one of Tyndale's great phrases from his translation of Genesis.

Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Un golpe de suerte no es más que la raíz de la siguiente preocupación.

Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.

Pense na vida como uma imensa roleta. Há probabilidades infinitas à nossa espera. Coisas boas, coisas más. De vez em quando acontece uma coisa boa. De vez em quando acontece uma coisa ruim. Quem é responsável? Ninguém.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

He thought it exceedingly unlikely that he would ever have married any girl, however many millions she had, if he had not loved her, and this was probably true enough, for what it is worth. Love and a million dollars is obviously a more attractive proposition than love without it, especially to a young man whose only skills were sonneteering and riding, who had been brought up to the idea of wealth and who had just run through most of his inheritance.

If you know what people need you have gotten more knowledge of a fortune than any amount of capital can give you.

He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good

I got back into the car thinking how lucky I was to be aware of happiness. Most people don't recognize their own good fortune until it has departed. And then it is too late.

Oil kindles extraordinary emotions and hopes, since oil is above all a great temptation. It is the temptation of ease, wealth, strength, fortune, power. It is a filthy, foul-smelling liquid that squirts obligingly up into the air and falls back to earth as a rustling shower of money.

And the first king was a lucky soldier.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.