Quotes About Fortune

O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.

France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and the first choice of all not under those ties.

We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.

Few begin with anything like a clear view of what they want to do, and the fortune they seek may come in a very different form from that which they have kept in view.

Action makes more fortunes than caution.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold

I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.

Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

My time in Paris was an education in both the grimness of a relentless, grinding day job and the joys of nights in glittering restaurants. The good fortune of my life, which has been to turn those glittering nights into my job, all came from there.

I could have been born into any family. I was fortunate that I was born to an artist as extraordinary as Picasso, and Picasso turned out to be the family business.

When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.

I look at my career and it's still hard for me to believe the way things turned out and how things happened. I've been so blessed.

I was following my muse and I was very fortunate in having good people around me and it turned out to be a pretty good recording in my opinion.

My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy and am so fortunate to bathe in her sensibilities. It is tinged with tragedy. I'd much rather she was here in person, but there is still a positive force to come out of her death and that is having the gift of music that she gave.

I made my money turning around distressed or bankrupt companies. I did 50-some of them in my career... I started on a shoestring and eventually built up quite a fortune.

Everything I touch turns to gold.

My friends say everything I touch turns to gold. I'll say, 'I've been very lucky.'

The Draft is about the re-generation of hope and excitement for teams. Every pick your team makes could be the next Tom Brady. He could be the guy who turns around the fortune of the franchise.

I did some British TV and bits and bobs here and there. I've been lucky.

I got to have a TV show that really was the talk of the nation for a while there. So I'm a very lucky guy.

Coming back to 'New Girl' was a real reminder of how lucky I am to be on a popular network TV show.