Quotes About Fortune

If you believe in "luck", always let it be good luck. Always choose to be "lucky", rather than "luckless". Be "happy", rather than "hapless".

Everything in life is luck.

It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

Good-Luck Bottle: Sometimes known as a Witch's Bottle, this generally takes the form of a jar with a tight-fitting screw-on lid. The dirt mixture is placed in the bottom of the container and sprinkled with herbs that vibrate to good fortune. (Any combination may be used, but I tend to use cinnamon, basil, and lavender, as they bring love, money, and spiritual protection.)

I suppose all young men dream of making a fortune," she said. "But most of them come to be content to make a living.

Luck is the last refuge of the incompetent,

Luck favors the prepared mind, Major Long," said Li, quoting Louis Pasteur.

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half- way to meet it.

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE way happenstance governs so much of human existence. Never underestimate how being in a certain place at a certain time changes the entire trajectory of things for you. Never underestimate the way we are all hostages to life's random rhythms.

Fate is bound up in the music of chance.

Fate presented itself to some like a chinese fan--one side black, the other side gilded with flowers. (Noli Me Tangere)

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky.

When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

Be grateful you're not in the forest in France Where the average young person just hasn't a chance To escape from the perilous pants eating plants But your pants are safe, you're a fortunate guy You ought to be shouting how lucky am I

Every time you see me I look like I hit the lotto twice.

I've been really fortunate, man, I got out of the game after 14 years and ... I certainly got hit plenty, but everything, so far, functions fairly well.

Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

In the United States, for example, two equally skilled and disciplined athletes—one a world-class gymnast and the other a world-class basketball player—are likely to enjoy wildly different degrees of fame and fortune through no fault or merit of their own.

When I was with the Giants I signed two-year contracts. They said I might as well be a lame duck, I was on crutches, you know what I'm saying. It's no big deal to me. How many people in life have one-year contracts? How many of you out there have one-year contracts? A lot of people are on paycheck-to-paycheck contracts, so I feel very fortunate to be even on a one-year contract.

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

I'm living such a lucky and blessed life and I'm trying my best to deserve it.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Every day I wake up and I realize how lucky I am to be living this life.