Quotes About Fortune

Life is a rotten lottery.

Everyone gets lucky for some amount in their life. And the question is, are you alert enough to know you're being lucky or you're becoming lucky?

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.

Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, Who ventures life and soul upon the dice.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

I have nothing against rich people. In fact, I've been struggling most of my life to join them.

That I should turn up at the precise moment was one of those extraordinarily lucky breaks which we all need at some time or other during this life, but don't always get.

I don't think you can ever make enough to be set for life. Well, I guess there are limits. In the billions, I guess.

I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.

I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life.

When a High Explosive shell bursts in fifteen feet and does you no damage, you can bet your sweet life you bear a charmed life and no mistake.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.

I was already set for life when I met her.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.

To succeed in life one needs two things -- influence and a lucky star.

I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life.

My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.

If you think your lot in life has been hard read "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.

You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.

I suppose there's a lot of people that've got a better life than me. But I don't know, I feel very fortunate and very blessed.

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.