Quotes About Fortune

I have basically fallen into everything I've ever done.

I think fame can come and go.

Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.

Looking back on it, I'm extremely blessed to play on two very good teams, with great quarterbacks and owners.

I was fortunate to be part of great teams that had success, and I was part of great teams that didn't have success.

I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic. Look at all the teams in America that have folded, and the leagues.

When you're successful, people have no sympathy. Nobody wants to catch the tears of a millionaire.

Justin Hayward was a teenager when he was drafted into the Moody Blues in 1966. He brought with him one song he had written for his girlfriend. This was called 'Nights in White Satin,' which subsequently made a fortune for a lot of people.

I feel quite lucky to have the platforms I have on both television and radio.

I am lucky to be part of a 'Kyunki.' Not every actor gets a chance to be part of a successful television show.

I'm a fortune teller, but I don't like to know my future.

I can't predict the future, nor will I. I'm not a fortune teller.

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.

A single idea / the sudden flash of a thought / may be worth a million dollars.

success was when opportunity met preparation.

Sometimes bad luck is really dumb actions or inaction. You can make your own luck by making smart decisions.

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.

Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ability, and enthusiasm to achieve nothing.

Who was more conscious than the soldier of capricious fortune, of the random roll of the dice?

Robin was disposed to feel desperately sorry for anyone with a less fortunate love life than her own – if desperate pity could describe the exquisite pleasure she actually felt at the thought of her own comparative paradise.

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy. Boethius, De

Nam in omni adversitate fortunae infelicissimum est genus infortunii, fuisse felicem. For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy. Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae

So whenas fortune all her spite hath shown, Some blissful hours at last must needs appear; Else would afflicted wights oft-times despair . . .

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.