Quotes About Fortune

The French philosopher Pierre-Hyacinthe Azaïs (1766-1845) formalized the statement that good and evil fortune are exactly balanced in that they produce for each person an equivalent result.

I've had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals.

Good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope.

Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.

One thing I do know is that we are fortunate to be here and we're here to try and better ourselves and to be good.

Acknowledge your good fortune by sharing it.

Good luck tended to avoid me.

Good luck, little Wanderer, good luck. How I wish you didn't need it.

If you ever have the good fortune to meet Tippi Hedren, she's an amazing woman. You can't quite believe she is the age she is.

I do not seek good fortune - I am good fortune!

It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

It's O.K. to accept good fortune.

How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

I am the luckiest guy in the world. All my dreams came true. I was in a wonderful business, and I met great people all over the world.

I didn't inherit any great success and the problems that came with it, and yet I was able to keep working and supporting myself and later a family. I'm crazy fortunate.

I had the good fortune early on to cast some really great people that were not just characters, they had character.

Expect the Best, Expect Divine Guidance, Expect your Fortunes to Change, Expect a Miracle!

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

It's an odd thing, happiness. Some people take happiness from gold. Or black pearls. And some of us, far more fortunate, take their happiness from periwinkles.

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.