Quotes About Fortune

I was born under a lucky star, and I have nothing whatsoever to regret. I wouldn't change a thing about my life.

Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.

Many people must have looked at my life and thought I was quite fortunate. But I felt lousy about myself - and as you now know, I didn't come from a place where I had a lot of self-confidence.

How many times, in any actor's life, do you get to be a part of something that has a legacy like [Buffy]? I think that's only fortunate. I don't see the negative.

We all have won the lottery of life. How do we discharge that responsibility?

Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain.

Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.

Even for charity I always give priority to education because I always teach young people - knowledge is your real companion, your life long companion, not fortune. Fortune can disappear.

In one of his books my father said, "Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse."

to live life as a writer is a very lucky thing.

Much in our lives is chance.

I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships. I am so lucky to be on the little golden path that led me to all this.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.

Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.

I fairly often have thought how lucky I was. I knew everybody because I was married to Bogie, and that 25-year difference was the most fantastic thing for me to have in my life.

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

Opportunities present themselves to me. That's how my whole life has been pretty much. I've been lucky.

The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.

In his experience, people who attributed their success to luck often had a lot to do with making their own luck.

Those whom the fates don't lead they finally drag

Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.