Quotes About Fortune

What is luck', he said, 'but the ability to exploit accidents?

We are lucky, even the worst of us, because daylight comes.

I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains and happiness, which persuade us of good fortune, when all the while the glass is emptying.

There is a city surrounded by water with watery alleys that do for streets and roads and silted up back ways that only the rats can cross. Miss your way, which is easy to do, and you may find yourself staring at a hundred eyes guarding a filthy palace of sacks and bones. Find your way, which is easy to do, and you may meet an old woman in a doorway. She will tell your fortune, depending on your face. This is the city of mazes.

The truth brings no man a fortune

the truth is no road to fortune, and the populace doesn't give out ambassadorships, university chairs, or pensions.

In giving too much weight to prudence one doesn't make enough allowance for the possibility of good luck.

God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.

You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man

I am not listening to him any more, but he must have strayed from his original subject because I suddenly hear: . . . to have, as you, the good fortune of writing a book. I have to say something. Good fortune, I say, dubiously. He mistakes the sense of my answer and rapidly corrects himself: Monsieur, I should have said: 'merit.

I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.

I am the same person as always and I have the good fortune to play in a great team. It was an historic year for Barca and for me but it's thanks to the work of everyone.

I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune for someone else; but the fact is that is how many things in life work sadly.

My goal was always getting my work out in the world, and in many ways, I feel like the luckiest person alive.

You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success than that's your bad luck.

You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.

It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.

The fact that I fell into this seemed more like a stroke of good fortune than hard work. Not to say that I didn't work hard, but it wasn't like, "I'm going to be a musician."

Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.

I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least one reason for this good fortune, then you still have work to do.

Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans. The harder I work, the luckier I get.