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Quotes About Fortune

Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I'm working full-time on my job and part time on my fortune. But it won't be long before I'm working full-time on my fortune. . . can you imagine what my life will look like?
~ Jim Rohn
Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.
~ Robert De Niro
The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.
~ L. Frank Baum
Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Life does not play with marked cards.Winning or losing is part of it.
~ Paulo Coelho
I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.
~ Andy Rooney
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then life suddenly comes into focus for me. And, ah, there stand my kids.
~ Lee Iacocca
If the shoe fits you're lucky.
~ Malcolm Forbes
We're all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I've had it a lot better than most people. I've had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life.
~ Levon Helm
Probability is the very guide of life.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
~ Abraham Verghese
My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people.
~ Albert Camus
When I die and I'm lucky enough or fortunate enough and brave enough throughout my life to get into Heaven and I see Octavia Spencer sitting there then all is good.
~ Tim McGraw
I look at all the things life has allowed me to do, and I feel like the luckiest person in the world.
~ Mariska Hargitay
I've been fortunate to live a very full professional life. Most of it has happened through God's graciousness and not from something I've imagined.
~ Oleta Adams
But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
My life and my career have been a series of happy and not so happy accidents.
~ Jeff Ross
Birth is life's first lottery ticket.
~ Jeffrey Archer
Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.
~ Dick Gephardt
I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!
~ Francis Ford Coppola
I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.
~ Freddie Mercury
I've always been extremely lucky in my life.
~ Omar Sharif