Quotes About Fortune

Every cloud has a silver lining

Ever notice how dumb luck seems to follow smart people around?

to somebody. It's hard to believe he'd get a break

Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.

Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over...

The news came early to the beggars in front of the church, and it made them giggle a little with pleasure, for they knew that there is no Almsgiver in the world like a poor man who is suddenly lucky.

There are times that one treasures for all one's life, and such times are burned clearly and sharply on the material of total recall. I felt very fortunate that morning.

Pearls were accidents, and the finding of one was luck, a little pat on the back by God or the gods or both.

Look out for luck. You can't trus' luck.

It's all right not to believe in luck and omens. Nobody believes in them. But it doesn't do any good to take chances with them and no one takes chances.

He thought that she possessed the two great gifts: she was smart and she got the breaks— and you couldn't want no better than that.

The one thing our species is helpless against is good fortune. It first puzzles, then frightens, then angers, and finally destroys us.

And this Kino knew also - that the gods do not love men's plans, and the gods do not love success unless it comes by accident.

Hay ciertos individuos que a veces, sin merecerlo en absoluto, son elegidos de los dioses. Lo obtienen todo sin el menor esfuerzo

No hay espíritu más desprendido en el mundo que el de un pobre a quien de pronto favorece la fortuna.

Oh, I have the money. I've had it a long time.

Following this formula, John Jacob Astor, who arrived in America the classic penniless immigrant in 1792, rose to become the "landlord of New York" and the richest man in America by the time he died in 1848.

Fate, no doubt, had a hand in it.

A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be.

People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.

I consider myself very fortunate indeed to have created a character which has captured the imagination and enthusiasm of so many children worldwide. They are my family, and Spot belongs to them all.

Having money is about handling it the correct way. In my lifetime, I've both lost and made millions.

A leprechaun did not just kill off my car in a hailstorm.

I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.