Quotes About Fortune

Se vorbeste mereu de cat de mult iubeste o femeie, insa rareori de cat de mult a fost ea iubita. Am primit multa dragoste. Nici un barbat nu m-a parasit – un noroc incredibil, nu-i asa? N-a fost nevoie sa ucid pe nimeni din gelozie sau ciuda. (din "Viata si spirit")

Everything for me has happened so quickly. I finished shooting 'The Blind Side' not this past June, but the June before, and all of sudden up to now, it seems like it's gone from zero to 60 for me. I feel so fortunate to be able to say that.

I'm already the most fortunate girl in the world, so I have zero expectations for what the future will bring.

We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.

Football is a funny game. Today, you are zero; tomorrow, you are a hero.

I've had the tremendous fortune to work on games like 'Life is Strange' and 'Horizon Zero Dawn', where there was a lot of collaboration between me and the developers.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Misfortune comes to all men.

Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.

Here is a rule to remember when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not, "This is a misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."

Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.

I am escaped by the skin of my teeth.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune, for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

"The world is a wheel always turning," philosophized Mrs. Pelz. "Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher."

Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.

As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great.

I was lucky I wasn't a better boxer, or that's what I'd be now - a punchy ex-pug.

When I was very young, I tried selling used cars. It didn't last long. I guess that was my good luck too, that I didn't show more promise at it, or I might have been an automobile dealer.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.

Blessings never come in pairs; misfortunes never come alone.