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Quotes About Fortune

Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity. Anyone who fails to recognize problems leaves the door open for tragedies to rush in.
~ Paulo Coelho
If a superior man undertakes something and tried to lead, He goes astray. But if he follows, he finds guidance. It is favourable to find friends in the West and South, and quiet perseverance brings good fortune.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.
~ Nat Hentoff
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.
~ William Wordsworth
Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.
~ Andy Warhol
I was fortunate to be connected with bands who later became pioneers for certain genres of music scenes. And my art went along with them for that ride and became associated with it.
~ Unknown
All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.
~ Dolly Parton
Being rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs. That's the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns.
~ Jimmy Buffett
For some players, luck itself is an art
~ Paul Newman
That which takes effect by chance is not an art.
~ Seneca the Younger
Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.
~ William Shakespeare
You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.
~ Danielle Steel
Life is made up of special moments, moments of joy, or of sorrow, of great good fortune, incredible thoughtfulness, moments you never forget, and that impact an entire lifetime, moments you treasure.
~ Danielle Steel
Life is made up of special moments, moments of joy, or of sorrow, of great good fortune, incredible thoughtfulness, moments you never forget, and that impact an entire lifetime, moments you treasure. May all your special moments be precious, happy ones, change your life in fortunate ways, and turn out to be great blessings. May your impact on others be kind, theirs on you always loving, and may you always, always know and remember how infinitely I love you, with all my heart, now and forever.
~ Danielle Steel
Pero no te preocupes, palomino, un día no muy lejano volverá a sonreírte la fortuna a ti también.
~ Danielle Steel
If your relationship fills you with a sense of luck, you've chosen well.
~ Darin Strauss
these densely settled civilizations interacted in a perverse way with European colonialism to create a "reversal of fortune," making the places that were previously relatively wealthy in the Americas relatively poor. Today it is the United States and Canada, which were then far behind the complex civilizations in Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia, that are much richer than the rest of the Americas.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
You don't recognise the good times in life until it all goes bad and you look back and see how lucky you were, how easy you had things.
~ Darren Shan
When you write, you want fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. You want to write what you want to write and feel it's good, and you want this to go on for hundreds of years. You're not likely ever to get all these things, and you're not likely to give up writing and commit suicide if you don't, but that is -- and should be -- your goal. Anything else is kind of piddling.
~ Dashiell Hammett
What do you do with all your money? Me and the French hoard gold.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Rule #72: Never depend upon luck, but don't ignore how really valuable it is.
~ Unknown
Some people just have more of a chance than others, and some just have to take the chances that they have. I know a lot of people who were more unfortunate than Jerry Bines, who turned out much better-
~ David Adams Richards
someone like you could be so, how do you say, fortunate," said Bok.
~ David Baldacci
got the chance.
~ David Baldacci