Quotes About Fortune

My friends and family are amazed I've done so well. I was not a model student. No one expected that I'd build a Fortune 500 company at Symantec.

I have been obscenely lucky. I've got most of the things I've asked for and done well at the things I've wanted to succeed at.

A person does not seek luck; luck seeks the person

Guests bring good luck with them.

My greatest dream is always to be luckier.

My astrologer predicted a year of successful enterprise and good fortune. So what went wrong? Had there been some ghastly beaureaucratic astral mix up?

Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer.

Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who don't depend on it

Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans.

High destiny is clear impressed

most people never experience such a passion, that I had been incredibly, divinely fortunate to have found, in a world where most souls dig there own graves with the sharp edge of their bitter loneliness...

If there exist fortunate people, if from time to time the wild sun of joy soars towards foreign lands in a sweet whirling of ecstasy — then where are the words which might tell of this? And if in the world there exists a beauty for enchantment, then how might one describe it? ("The Poison Garden")

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate

How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would come when we should have no more hope, and yet be unable to die

Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.

Quo fata trahunt, retrahuntque sequamur. (Wherever the fates may lead us, let us follow them.)

good times and bad times are like the sun and moon. You usually see one and not the other, and yet you know that both are always there. Therefore, she concluded, when your fortunes are riding high, you shouldn't feel arrogant, and when they're low, you shouldn't feel depressed.

In America, we believe that our happiness depends on getting breaks, even though being American is already the biggest break we will ever get.

I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.

No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.

Because it's his bad luck to be the best.

Wealth is the sinews of affairs.

All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

All artists have runners, people that tell them what to do, business managers, lawyers, these - if they get the right ones, they're lucky, and if they get the wrong ones, they're unlucky.