Quotes About Fortune

Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.

The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.

Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.

A good year for me is when me and my family are in good health. I'm just lucky to have good years doing something I like to do.

If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.

My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. And yet I'm a multi-millionaire.

Gifts, like words, carried with them a great deal of power. They bestowed good fortune just as powerfully as they could curse; the could bind people together or tear them apart.

Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.

Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.

I have always felt very fortunate to be have good people. You know, talent will carry you for so far but the values of the people around that should make the difference.

I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

If this is a good-luck month for us, that would be great.

The things you want professionally are opportunities. And through my good fortune that's what's happened. Opportunity has come to me.

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end.

No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.

Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations.

To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.

They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.

This is a business that I have always had the last laugh in.It has nothing to do with acting, it has to do with good karma.

My first goal was to get a job . And I did that. And I think I've just been fortunate to be surrounded by good people who believed in me as much as I believe in myself.