Quotes About Fortune

Success is always a matter of some luck and timing.

I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out.

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

The only thing I don't think people don't understand about good leaders is that they're both good and lucky. A lot of it is timing.

A lot has evolved and changed in women's sport in the last 10 years - particularly football and cricket. So, I think my timing, in terms of being able to play both for a while, was fortunate.

With writing, timing is everything. Being in the right place at the right time.

I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world.

I know this sounds a bit mad, but I always take a tiny green cut-out leprechaun - about the size of a fingernail - with me. My mother gave it to me because we're Irish. She's adamant that it brings good luck.

It's been constant grinding and trying to secure work that I care about, tireless auditions and meetings. I've been fortunate that a lot of cool doors have opened to me, chiefly meeting great people who were inspired by what I've done and what they feel I could bring to their projects.

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

Seven is a lucky number, so I plan to do a lot of lucky things with my seventh place title.

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.

I guess people assume I have some sort of totally magical life, but I'm a working musician, fortunately. I've worked on my craft, and I'm very fortunate I've been able to survive in a very competitive industry and enjoy my success. It's not easy.

Something devastating can happen to you, and it can have positive consequences. By the same token, something fantastic can happen, and it can bring a lot of trouble. That's life.

If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.

People congregate according to their relative levels of luck.

Lightning only strikes once," my dad said. "And when it hits, you know.

If I was really, really lucky, Felix might throw a fireball at me, and I'd get out of the rest of this freakshow.

This was merely the malignant hand of coincidence.

No podías tener todo lo que querías, pero, si eras afortunada, tenías las cosas que importaban.

There is always a unlucky person behind a lucky person or the lucky person can not be lucky.

Chance favors the prepared." — Louis Pasteur

That's how luck works, lad. You can bitch all you like about how things could have been more favorable for you, but rest assured things can always be worse. Always.

all apologies for getting most of your fortune buried under shit. I hope we can all still be friends.