Quotes About Fortune

be indifferent to the goods that fortune has to bestow, and you will be emancipated from fear.

I am incapable of a profound remark on the workings of Destiny. It seems to get up early and go to bed very late, and it acts most generously toward the people who nudge it off the road whenever they meet it.

I've been enormously fortunate. People say, 'How do you feel about your reputation?' My real belief is that I have exactly the reputation I deserve... on the whole, I feel comfortable with myself.

If you've been around as long as I have, watching the literary scene, then you know that who's in and who's out changes by the year. It's really a very fluid situation that requires that the person who is having the good luck now isn't having it a year or two from now.

As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California.

Penalties are like the lottery and you miss them when luck is not on your side.

Luck plays an important role in Bollywood. We all work really hard to earn success but our luck has to be on the right side, especially from where I come from.

Since I first signed with AMI's Weider Publications in 2005, everything has turned to gold.

Everything has come to me without my having to look for it. I signed with Metro because someone thought I had talent, and it was the same thing with the ballet.

Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

My signing of Derrick Rose was like anything in life, I think it was just luck. I played in Chicago. Derrick is from Chicago.

'Silver Linings' has proved a golden opportunity for me.

I've been able to do some great things. I've gone to All-Star Games, I've won Gold Gloves, Silver Sluggers - I don't want to sound like I'm bragging, really - and I've been fortunate financially.

Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while.

The fortunate among us realize early that loss is the key in which much of life is played.

Lo que es, pues, esencial en la guerra es el triunfo, no las campañas prolongadas. Por este motivo el general que comprende la guerra es el ministro de la fortuna del pueblo y el árbitro de la nación.

Ganar combatiendo o llevar a cabo un asedio victorioso sin recompensar a los que han hecho méritos trae mala fortuna y se hace merecedor de ser llamado avaro. Por eso se dice que un gobierno esclarecido lo tiene en cuenta y que un buen mando militar recompensa el mérito. No moviliza a sus tropas cuando no hay ventajas que obtener, ni actúa cuando no hay nada que ganar, ni lucha cuando no existe peligro.

And may the odds be ever in your favor

She didn't know the going price of cattle on the hoof, or the per acre value of land in this part of the country, but from what she could tell, no Nicholson was ever going to die poor.

Just being a good person doesn't necessarily entitle you to a good life.

Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply.

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.