Quotes About Fortune

I have been quite lucky as an actor to have managed to play different kinds of roles.

I would say I was lucky that I got different kinds of roles.

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.

I've made more millions than I can count. But you know, it's a faerie gold - the tax people take most of it, and the rest goes to people you need to stay alive, places to live, conveyances to get from here to there.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

I am not going to fiddle taxes. I pay my accountant a fortune to look after me.

I've had the good fortune of working with some amazing people. I mean, my first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.

I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.

Not just my parents, but teachers, friends, mentors - a host of people are to be thanked for any success I have had, and a whole lot of just plain luck.

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

In a phone call one evening the corps commander grew incensed when Ward mentioned his good fortune in losing no officers in combat that day. "Goddammit, Ward, that's not fortunate. That's bad for the morale of the enlisted men," Patton snapped. "I want you to get more officers killed.

Tis worth the experiment. Audaces fortuna juvat"—fortune favors the bold—though he tempted fortune by adding, "Should we fail I don't see any fatal consequences which are likely to attend it.

everyone went and had some turkey and cornbread dressing, and hot biscuits, and mashed potatoes running with butter, and when they prayed, they thanked God for the good fortune that had found their boy, who had sense enough to know that if you're going to be hit by a train, you have to go stand on the tracks in Memphis, Tennessee. Amen.

Let the stronger man give to the man whose need is greater let him gaze upon the lengthening path of life. For riches roll like the wheels of a chariot, turning from one to another.

But even Cammaerts' luck ran out eventually, proving

I forgot for a second that he was my ancestral enemy, and felt bad for him; then i consoled myself that bird poop brings good luck

We are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents and good partners. If we are wise we strive for integrity and intimacy. If we are fortunate we discover love and joy. If we are able, we make the world a little better than we found it. That is all there is for any of us.

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.

People usually lived or died of dumb luck. Not because something mystical cares.

Fortune, if thou'll but gie me still Hale breeks, a scone, an whisky gill, An' rowth o' rhyme to rave at will, Take a' the rest, An' deal't about as thy blind skill Directs thee best.

Fickle Fortune: A Fragment Though fickle Fortune has deceived me, She pormis'd fair and perform'd but ill; Of mistress, friends, and wealth bereav'd me, Yet I bear a heart shall support me still. I'll act with prudence as far 's I'm able, But if success I must never find, Then come misfortune, I bid thee welcome, I'll meet thee with an undaunted mind.

A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.