Quotes About Fortune

I consider myself very fortunate. I mean, I think there's that old saying, 'Where there's a will, there's a way,' and I just have such a passion for jazz music and playing the piano that I just find a way to make it work, so to speak. Fortunately, I have so far.

I've worked hard and tried to approach my career with as much honesty and integrity as possible. I've also had many blessings along the way and feel very fortunate to have a career that speaks so much to my soul.

I would like to be in a really big, successful film - boffo, spectacular, $500 million!

I've been fortunate enough to travel the world because of my career, but the downside has been spending long spells apart from my daughters.

At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.

There's a belief in some cultures that if a person experiences good fortune in financial terms and does not share the good fortune, when that person becomes ill with a mysterious fever and dies, people tend to say: 'Aha! It was because he didn't share. It was the spirits who brought him down.'

I don't really consider myself an immigrant, because I was born French; I have always spoken the language. I never had the feeling of being a foreigner. I was very lucky: I came to France, and I had enough money to study and to rent a studio. So, for me, it was not difficult.

They say you have to be good to be lucky, but I think you have to be lucky to be good.

And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.

By luck I mean, when opportunity meets preparation.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.

With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!

I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.

I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.

I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.

You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you.

Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.

Luck is indeed where preparation meets opportunity.

In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

If we could bottle your luck, we'd have a weapon of mass destruction on our hands.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.