Quotes About Fortune

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress.

I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.

If you have something about yourself that's different, you're lucky. It's not a curse.

It's important to understand the big difference between a mentor and sponsor. I was fortunate that I had both, and my sponsors have been both men and women.

Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon.

I come from a very affluent family. I have been educated in one of the finest institutions of the world. Money was never a factor in my life: by the grace of God, I was blessed with a golden spoon.

I wouldn't say I grew up with a silver spoon. Yeah, I was very fortunate. I have a great family.

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

I'm a very firm believer in karma, and put it this way: I get a lot of good parking spots.

The fact that I was fortunate enough to escape contagion, in spite of frequent, sometimes daily contacts with the disease, was because I soon guessed how it spread.

I know I have been lucky in business, and I am keen now to spread goodwill to others, of course not forgetting that very often, you make your own luck by making use of every opportunity.

The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later.

For me, to get break in 'Jai Ho' was a challenge and my journey after that depends on my work and luck so, I think blessing of my parents has helped to reach this stage and I am really fortunate that Salman Khan lifted me from one level and helped me to reach another level.

High stakes, low stakes, poor or rich - people will find a way to gamble.

I've been fortunate that when Frank Sinatra was in concert, he would say, 'Here's a song by a wonderful young songwriter, Jimmy Webb,' and I'd be in the front row and stand up. That gets people talking about you.

I had the great good fortune of working with Christopher Plummer, Frances Sternhagen, and Arthur Hill early in my career, and it set a standard for the kind of work I want to do.

In 2010, when the Lotus Sutra was made available to me by a private dealer, I was very fortunate to be able to have it. It is very long, 30 feet or something crazy like that. It has some 15,000 very small standard script characters that the artist Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan dynasty made when he was in his 60s.

Nobody, from that standpoint, is any luckier than I am or will ever be any luckier than I am. It's great.

In the annals of the rich and miserable, Christina Onassis stands out, if only because she was so rich and so miserable.

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.