Quotes About Fortune

I've been really fortunate and I've just tried to focus on the work and getting people to see Mexico, its food and its culture in a slightly different light. It's tricky with Mexican food because a lot of our recipes are so deeply rooted in tradition and Mexican history. That's a heavy responsibility!

When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.

I have been fortunate enough to play in some big clubs all over the world and in some important games and win trophies.

It's all about hustling, whether it's in Boston or the film industry. I've been hustling my entire life - acting my way into trouble and acting my way back out again. I'm just fortunate to have had the opportunity to apply it in a different direction.

People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.

I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

My mom's made it clear to me that, like, there's no trust fund.

A lot of it [success] is luck. That's a huge part of it that no one wants to talk about. You just got to be in the right place at the right time.

Love is priceless. And all I really want is a good night kiss. So if tears were diamonds, more valuable gold, then a fortune in the corners of my eyes I would hold.

It's hard for them because they want to be proud of me, but I keep reminding them that it's all luck. Luck is what got me here, nothing else.

Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair?

I think I'm very fortunate to be born in America. And lucky to be able to have lived and had the opportunity to do what I want to do.

It's interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing.

I'm in a position where - I mean, not a lot of people are in a very fortunate position - where I kind of have the power to choose what I want to do in a way.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

I think I've been fortunate over the years to be at a point in my career where I really get to choose the partnerships that I really want to take on and they're a perfect fit.

What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

Success is a matter of luck. If you want proof, ask any failure.

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

Actors don't necessarily want to be famous or rich or anything else. It's a very bad gamble if that's what you're after.

I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it

It's just how it played out. Choices are made, accidents happen, the fates fall. Remember that, when our own falls on us.

luck or fate or whatever it is that decides who lives and who doesn't has not,

Although the role of serendipity is familiar, what's not so well appreciated is how different serendipity is from luck. Serendipity is not just an apparent aptitude for making fortunate discoveries accidentally, as my dictionary defines it. Serendipitous discoveries are always made by people in a particular frame of mind, people who are focused and alert because they're searching for something. They just happen to find something else.