Quotes About Fortune

It's human nature when you first make your big fortune to want to show off a bit. I don't begrudge that whatsoever.

Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.

As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

'Bunk' is better than 'Wheel of Fortune' because we have a wheel, just like them, but our wheel is purposeless. It doesn't do anything. It just spins for no reason. Which is nice because it frees our wheel up to really pursue its dream: becoming a professional paddlewheel.

I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.

I've had an unbelievable life. I've been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I'm from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, 'That's real work.'

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

You never know where a blessing can come from.

I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.

If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.

It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English translation of his great work 'The Sensations of Tone.' As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz's masterpieces.

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

The NBA's a Fortune 500 company. That's how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you don't see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach.

Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

I am pleased, with a feeling of good fortune, to be from Selanik. If you want to know the truth better, I feel that my chest is overflowing with a feeling of pride.

I think we all appreciate it now just how lucky we are to be in a band like Judas Priest.

I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them.

I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.

I feel very lucky, I feel my life is a never-ending privilege.