Quotes About Fortune

I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

I've always felt very blessed and lucky in the world, and I have great compassion for people who struggle to get through the day.

We're baseball players, right? We make great money. Regardless if we don't make the money we want, we're still making great money. A lot of people in this world are struggling a lot harder than us.

I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.

I am very fortunate, very grateful for everything that has happened to me, everything I've done, all the opportunities, so I'm very happy.

I am grateful for all the opportunities I've had.

I've been so blessed to have the opportunities that I've had.

I've certainly been very blessed with opportunity.

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

I am well aware of my good fortune, and I only hope to diversify so I can do what I'm already doing for more people as opposed to being so large and so great that I no longer want to do the thing that got me here.

The difference between Oprah Winfrey and me is about $200 million.

History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.

I feel very fortunate that I played for the four organizations I did.

I've been very fortunate throughout my career to fight for the best organizations in the world.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

We've been lucky with our music; people have liked it.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

I think the lottery changed everything for us. Once we got Sidney, it helped us turn this franchise around overnight.

You can become a star overnight, guys. You can be on the street walking one day, and you're on your way to the corner diner, and you had to hitch a ride to get there. And the next day, you can be a huge star, money coming at you from right and left. And you've got to know how to handle that situation.

The Romans themselves had always dreaded that this might be their destiny. As Sallust, their first great historian, put it, "There can be no doubting that Fortune is the mistress of all she surveys, the creature of her own caprices, choosing to broadcast the fame of one man while leaving that of another in darkness, without any regard for the scale of what they might both have achieved.

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

The fates lead her who will; who won't they drag.