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Quotes About Fortune

There's no such thing as coincidence – only controlled bursts of fate.
~ David Niall Wilson
You can do homework from now until doomsday, but you will never win fame and fortune unless you also invent big ideas.
~ David Ogilvy
Bill did not believe in luck. Bad luck or good. Bill knew it was never a matter of luck, never a question of luck. Bill knew luck was just another excuse for failure.
~ David Peace
Fortunately I have a son, my beautiful boy Unfortunately he is a drug addict. Fortunately he is in recovery. Unfortunately he relapses. Fortunately he is in recovery again. Unfortunately he relapses. Fortunately he is not dead.
~ David Sheff
Fortunately I have a son, my beautiful boy. Unfortunately he is a drug addict. Fortunately he is in recovery. Unfortunately he relapses. Fortunately he is in recovery again. Unfortunately he relapses. Fortunately he is in recovery again. Unfortunately he relapses. Fortunately he is not dead.
~ David Sheff
Fortunately there is a beautiful boy, unfortunately he has a terrible disease. Fortunately there is love and joy, unfortunately there is pain and misery. Fortunately this story is not over.
~ David Sheff
It's good to be good, but it's better to be lucky.
~ David Simon
I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.
~ David Walliams
Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
~ Davy Crockett
Fame & fortune come with a price that fame finds insulting and fortune can't afford to pay back.
~ Dean Cavanagh
Fate is by far the greatest mystery of all.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Please assure his lordship that I am not enjoying the fruits of connubial bliss with Stoker, nor should he expect a claim upon his fortune because I am in an indelicate condition.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Anyone can get lucky," he said coldly. "And I suspect your continued survival owes itself to a combination of good fortune and sheer bloody-mindedness. You are too stubborn to die.
~ Deanna Raybourn
often enough, we owe our good fortune to someone else's loss.
~ Deb Caletti
With faith, you can find your fate.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune, " but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
So long as fortune is favouring you, your defects will remain covered.
~ Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib
You are not with your luck but he is with you forever and your life proves it.
~ Rajesh Walecha
FAITH in God is the only fortune, there is.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
~ Ambrose Bierce
In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
~ Boethius
When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.
~ Plutarch
Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.
~ Gautama Buddha
It says he's rich. It also says he's a scion. What the heck is a scion? Sounds like some kind of refrigerator or a car.
~ Jayne Castle