Quotes About Fortune

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

When it happens— the great sea change, the alteration of one's life into something rich and strange— when it singles one out, one is always lucky, lucky automatically. I'm talking about transformation, and the transformation I'm talking about is always a gift. A blessing.

Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.

fate is the ultimate preexisting condition.

They have our soul who have our bonds - and the world was more fortunate in who had London's bonds than America is seventy years later. Britain's eclipse by its wayward son was a changing of the guard, not a razing of the palace.

There's millions in it!

It's funny, but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never know when it will befall you.

I always find it funny when I watch actors talking about, "I chose to do this part." A lot of times it's you're lucky to get the job. We're like, "Thank you so much."

I've been fortunate - I haven't had too many auditions. I slept with the right people.

I bought a million lottery tickets. I won a dollar.

Is there any difference between a happy and a lucky man? A happy is someone who finds an oasis with drinking water in a desert. A lucky man will always find water.

Nevermind nomenclatures, boy! What a serendipitous situation this is!

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.

Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

The shape of your character is the shape of your future.

The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

The greatest change to go from average to fortune is not so much an increase in knowledge, but rather, a change in our emotions about achieving our goals.

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.