Quotes About Fortune

Todo es comenzar á ser venturoso. (To be lucky at the beginning is everything.) —MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, Don Quixote

The idea that large historical events are determined by luck is profoundly shocking, although it is demonstrably true.

I'm very fortunate in the things I've done and I've worked really hard at them. It's always ultimately up to the viewers whether they like it or not.

I am extremely fortunate to have such talented people as my parents. I will always turn to them for advice. But I am my own person and have my independent views.

My mum knows people in the village who died or were affected by Agent Orange who had kids who are disabled. I could have been an orphan. So many things could have gone wrong but here I am... I realise how lucky I am to be here.

I hail from a small village and whatever I have achieved is simply because of fate.

The lucky village of Sodeto, in the kingdom of Aragon, is a cluster of sensible houses spackled together off the main road, curtained behind a pine copse.

I think that our family is very fortunate, very lucky, that on their own merit, from themselves, using whatever means necessary, singing Qawwali, in all corners and areas, in every place, singing in villages, they've promoted it.

See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.

From the minute I got to 'Fortune,' I loved my job. I knew myself to be a virtual dunce about business, and I was wide-eyed about how much I was learning.

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

I think I've been very fortunate, considering the obstacles that I had to deal with, you know, just being - by virtue of being a brown, lovely, brown-skinned man. But on the other hand, I've been able to make a good living, and I've been able to take care of my family, which is most important to me.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

In many ways, I'm incredibly lucky to have been born with my impairment and that it's visible. It means my path has been predictable.

Cast your hook in the stream where you least expect to get a bite; if you hook a fish, then you'll know you're truly lucky. —Dutch Callahan

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

I don't trust good fortune that comes so easily. There is always a price to be paid, Frannie. Always." He gave her a cocky grin. "I want to know the price before I have to pay it.

For the past two weeks, you've been reading about a bad break. Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

You have it in your power to turn a bad-beat around simply by realizing this simple truth: The more bad beats you encounter, the luckier you are. It's a sign that you are playing against opponents who continually take the worst of it, and if you can't beat someone who always takes the worst of it, you can't beat anyone.

Everyone is simply riding the wave chance has put them on. Some people know how to surf; some people drown.

Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

Life is a lottery that we've already won. But most people have not cashed in their tickets.

He wanted desperately to be an actor. The pursuit of fame and fortune far outweighed his ability to experience joy. He thought he could be acceptable and worthwhile only if he had fame. I taught him to love and accept himself, and he got well. He is now grown up and appears on Broadway with regularity. As he learned to experience the joy of being himself, the parts in plays opened up for him.