Quotes About Fortune

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

I'm lucky, I don't like sweets, not even chocolate.

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.

I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.

I've had the fortune of working with a large Malayali crew in Priyadarshan's 'Bumm Bumm Bole' and Ajay Verma's 'SRK,' which is a Hindi remake of Sreenivasan's 'Chinthavishtayaya Shyamala.'

My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.

I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

I have been very fortunate that the Punjabi audience connected with me so well. Otherwise female actors are not repeated much in this industry.

I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.

I came from nothing and achieved humungous fame and fortune. But I worked hard. I had discipline and determination. I had that ice in me.

I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line.

In my essay for 'The Good Immigrant,' I write about how concerns about race and immigration crept up on me a bit because of how I grew up and my background - I was quite fortunate, really; I never got the rough end of the stick with a lot of that kind of stuff.

I'm very fortunate to have been raised in my family. I learned early about the importance of giving back.

I do know one thing - while success has a lot to do with hard work, luck also plays an important role.

I have been very fortunate since 'Ice Age' to make movies that somehow charm audiences. I think that the key to it for me has been coming up with the right ideas but, more importantly, choosing the right collaborators and artists to execute those ideas.

Some players are more fortunate than others to have coaches who are more focused on improvement.

A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.

I've been fortunate, I guess: I've gotten to play a lot of very diverse roles for quite a long time. But in the beginning, I was thinking, 'I'm not gonna do certain characters. I will be willing to say no and live on a couch.' And I was really happy.

In the end, one has to feel lucky that things fell out O.K. I've felt that all the years I've been writing plays.

I've been really lucky with the shows that I've done and the diverse line-ups I've been included in.

I've never had a haircut where I've gone to a hair cutting place and they gave me an incorrect haircut. So I've been pretty lucky.

I've been fortunate enough to really work with amazing people and have incredible people lead me along the way.

I've had the great fortune of working with incredible people on many shows.