Quotes About Fortune

at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.

Blind luck, to arrive in the world with your properly formed parts in the right place, to be born to parents who were loving, not cruel, or to escape, by geographical or social accident, war or poverty. And therefore to find it so much easier to be virtuous.

What a stroke of luck, that the woman he loves is also his wife.

Factory settings—a contemporary synonym for fate.

His accidental fortune was beyond calculation, to have been born in 1948 in placid Hampshire, not Ukraine or Poland in 1928, not to have been dragged from the synagogue steps in 1941 and brought here. His white-tiled cell – a piano lesson, a premature love affair, a missed education, a missing wife – was by comparison a luxury suite. If his life so far was a failure, as he often thought, it was in the face of history's largesse.

Good luck is a skill, and bad luck simply the product of poor choices and overlooked opportunities. In other words, tough luck.

Even so, the Americans had needed more than a few strokes of good luck. The battle had been a near-run thing, and easily might have gone the other way.

Fortune favors the brave, I told her. It also kills the stupid, but I decided to keep that fact to myself.

You fellows ever thought of hiring out as a Christmas lights crew? You'd make a fortune.

Fortune favors the brave," I told her. It also kills the stupid, but I decided to keep that fact to myself.

To any young person starting out on life and looking to make a quick fortune, I have this advice: forget banking, but go instead into security, scaffolding, or urban trench digging. Not in a hands-on way. I mean start a company.

I was never really aware of being famous. Being in a magazine or on a billboard - that really didn't register to me at all when I was younger. People would come up to me and recognize me, but I was very fortunate in that people were always so warm.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.

You have to fight for your dream, but you also have to feel fortunate for what you have.

Some people are lucky enough to borrow money from their parents, but that shouldn't determine whether you can pursue your dreams.

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

Through pure accident of birth, I've managed to stay relatively youthful.

I have had some good fortune in the world of television. I have had it late in life after many youthful struggles and a change of careers.

We were very fortunate to be in YouTube in the very beginning. There wasn't a lot of content on there, so we were pretty easy to find on YouTube. That was really helpful in growing our channel.

In preparing for my recording audition, my mom told me to YouTube the old 'Peanuts' Thanksgiving and Christmas specials to hear how Charlie Brown speaks. So I listened to as much as I could find online to get the voice right. Winning the role took a lot of hard work, but good fortune as well.

I've been lucky in life, that's for sure, but it all started with being born in the greatest country in the world - New Zealand.

I came from a family of extremely old money, and so by the time I was born, there was really just a trickle of money left.